Labor
New AFL-CIO leaders set fighting tone
September 29, 2009The AFL-CIO's new leadership launches a national tour pressing for a public health option and passing the EFCA.
Read moreLabor tells G-20 to save planet and its workers
September 27, 2009PITTSBURGH — It was clear at a rally here last night that the labor and environmental movements are more united now than ever before as they put forward demands on leaders of the G-20 nations that...
Read moreDetroit fights for access to fresh food
September 27, 2009DETROIT — This is a city in crisis whose residents get hit from many angles. The city’s unemployment rate (officially near 30 percent) alone would spell catastrophe for any population.
Read moreWells Fargo guilty of crimes against workers, rally charges
September 27, 2009CHICAGO – Hundreds of labor, faith based and community leaders rallied here in front the downtown corporate offices of Wells Fargo Sept. 24 calling the bank guilty of criminal actions aimed at working people.
Read moreLabor journalists to look behind the scenes before G-20
September 27, 2009Two weeks before the G-20 summit opens in Pittsburgh to discuss the global economic crisis, labor journalists from across the country will be in the Steel City to document what’s really going on with workers without...
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