Labor
Two Labor Day wishes
September 5, 2009If two big things could happen this fall we’d have a shot at re-creating the middle class society workers enjoyed in the past.
Read moreLabor-led alliance pressures Wal-Mart for change
September 5, 2009Unveiling a new "American values agenda" this week, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union launched a new coalition of labor unions, worker advocacy groups, environmental groups, faith-based communities and consumer protection organizations to "hold Wal-Mart...
Read more‘Young workers: A lost decade’
September 4, 2009Something bad happened in the past 10 years to young workers in this country: Since 1999, more of them now have lower-paying jobs, if they can get a job at all; health care is a rare...
Read moreObama to address AFL-CIO convention
September 4, 2009President Obama will speak at the AFL-CIO Convention in Pittsburgh on Sept. 15, the White House announced yesterday. The speech will once again dramatize the new relationship between the labor movement and the Oval Office, following...
Read moreTrumka draws line in the sand on health care
September 2, 2009AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer, Richard Trumka, has drawn a line in the sand on health care reform, saying that Congress must include a strong public plan option in the final bill in order for labor to back it.
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