Labor
Steelworkers president talks up green jobs
October 7, 2010"The same people who say you can't have good wages and good pensions say you can't have good jobs and a clean environment," Steelworkers leader Leo Gerard said.
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Labor leads campaign for moratorium on foreclosures
October 6, 2010Calls for a nationwide moratorium on foreclosures come after several large banks revealed widespread irregularities in procedures for home repossessions.
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Bangladesh labor leader rotting in jail
October 5, 2010Ghosh, a well-respected labor leader, lawyer and member of the Communist Party of Bangladesh, has now been in jail for over 70 days.
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Oct. 2 ‘One Nation’ rally calls for jobs
October 3, 2010Protesters rallied at the Lincoln Memorial Oct. 2 to cheer calls for jobs, union rights and a massive vote against corporate greed and hate in the Nov. 2 midterm elections.
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Workers shut down biggest East Coast port
October 1, 2010Longshore workers were proud of solidarity actions they took - which shut down the East Coast's biggest port - by refusing to cross the picket lines their brother and sister workers from Philadelphia set up
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