labor movement
1500 rally for health care in St. Louis
August 31, 2009ST. LOUIS – “Health care reform is about family values,” Board of Alderman President Lewis Reed told over 1,500 union members, community leaders and activists here at an Organizing for America (OFA) health care rally August,...
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Big-money consultants fight to kill EFCA, health care
August 28, 2009Behind the wide and well-funded disinformation campaign against pro-worker policies like the Employee Free Choice Act is a network of corporate funders and high-priced lobbying firms, aimed at distracting and confusing the public and the press...
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LA car wash workers score NLRB victory
August 27, 2009Los Angeles car wash workers fired recently for union activity won more than $50,000 in back pay today in a formal settlement of their National Labor Relations Board complaint against Vermont Hand Wash, a notorious anti-worker...
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Labor leader to head New York Fed
August 26, 2009The Federal Reserve has for so long been thought of as the guarantor of what’s good for big business that news out of New York yesterday came as a big surprise to many in labor and...
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Mauricio Terrazas, Mexican American activist, dies at 92
August 25, 2009LOS ANGELES — Mauricio Terrazas, a longtime Mexican American activist and trade unionist, died here recently at the age of 92.
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