Labor
Taking Employee Free Choice Act to the streets, media
March 13, 2009CLEVELAND — Dozens of activists committed to workplace fairness and economic recovery gathered here March 7 for a three-hour speakers training session to promote the Employee Free Choice Act. The event, held at Trinity Cathedral, brought...
Read moreJobs report worst since Great Depression
March 13, 2009The United States is now facing levels of joblessness comparable to those of the Great Depression. Labor Department data released this month shows in February, employers eliminated 651,000 jobs, the third month in a row that...
Read moreL.A. teachers facing mass layoffs
March 13, 2009On Tuesday the Los Angeles Board of Education approved nearly 9,000 layoff notices for permanent elementary school teachers, probationary teachers, and some non-teaching personnel and administration officials. LA is the second largest school district in the...
Read moreSetting standards for green and good jobs
March 13, 2009Original source: If the nation’s economy is to truly recover, the funds from President Obama’s economic recovery package—the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act—must be spent in ways that keep working families’ needs in mind and create...
Read moreDont disgrace Chicago, Congress Hotel workers tell tourism board
March 12, 2009CHICAGO -- To its great shame, the Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau still promotes the Congress Hotel despite a six-year strike that has garnered national attention and solidarity. Several dozen strikers and their supporters picketed the...
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