Labor
NYC transit union moves to defeat Bloomberg
July 30, 2009NEW YORK—The rapidly fading myth that Mayor Michael Bloomberg would sail to an easy victory, due to his ability to spend tens of millions of dollars to drown out the voices of his opponents, was shattered...
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Labor issues call for a new New Deal
July 30, 2009The executive council of the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest labor federation, called for a massive second economic stimulus package yesterday, modeled after FDR’s Works Progress Administration, noting that the agency put 3.5 million people to work...
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Working families rally for public option
July 30, 2009Original source: Health Care For America Now, a coalition including unions, rallied in Seattle Tuesday to support health care reform with a public option. Zels Bryan Johnson was there: ” People here are absolutely ecstatic about...
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Minneapolis author bringing 1934 Teamsters strike to life
July 28, 2009ST. PAUL -(Workday Minnesota) After “Bloody Friday,” in 1934, when Minneapolis police brutalized about 60 striking truck drivers, an old woman drove up to the strike’s headquarters in a truck filled with supplies. It must have...
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New Orleans day laborers want wage theft criminalized
July 27, 2009Original source: Post-Katrina New Orleans has become the center of a national effort to protect migrant day laborers from wage theft. As Facing South has covered, following the 2005 hurricane season, the Gulf Coast region saw...
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