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Obama to address AFL-CIO convention

September 4, 2009 By John Wojcik

President 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...

Trumka draws line in the sand on health care

September 2, 2009 By John Wojcik

AFL-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.

Immigrant workers demand back wages from NBC Contractors

August 28, 2009 By Marilyn Bechtel

HAYWARD, Calif. - "When I heard about NBC Contractors denying workers their rights and the pay they deserve, I thought about my father, and the struggles he went through when he emigrated from China 25 years...

Big-money consultants fight to kill EFCA, health care

August 28, 2009 By Seth Michaels

Behind 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...

Labor journalists to look behind the scenes before G-20

August 28, 2009 By Joint Party Statement

Two 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...