Labor

Will work for bailout

Gun owners for Obama? Yes, if they had a union card

Union voters were critical in President-elect Obama’s victory, providing a crucial bloc of support in swing states that helped him win big, election night polling released Nov. 5 by the AFL-CIO showed. In their announcement of...

Guild workers demand fair deal from Plain Dealer

CLEVELAND – Over 100 members of the Newspaper Guild Local 1 held a brief rally and picketed the Plain Dealer Oct. 30 to protest an anti-union buyout offer in an ongoing downsizing of the city’s only...

Author, activist Studs Terkel dies at 96

CHICAGO (AP) — Studs Terkel captured the essence of Chicago in the pages of his best-selling oral histories, chronicling common people and celebrities alike. Along the way he became an ageless master of listening and speaking,...

Health workers strike for safe staffing, job security

Bright purple tee-shirts filled the plaza at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, as striking health care workers gathered to demand the highly profitable company improve staffing levels, stop contracting work out and drop proposed takeaways in...