Labor
AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka on Racism and Obama
July 24, 2008AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Richard Trumka delivers a powerful speech at the Steelworkers convention in early July about racism and the 2008 elections.
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Wage theft, Bush-style
July 23, 2008In an unlikely team-up, impartial investigators from the Government Accountability Office joined a low-income workers’ advocate at congressional hearings July 15 to tell lawmakers that President Bush’s Labor Department has failed to enforce minimum wage and...
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Campus workers end week-long strike
July 23, 2008OAKLAND, Calif. — Thousands of service workers returned to their jobs on University of California campuses July 21, after a week-long strike to protest the university’s stonewalling of their demands for fair compensation in contract negotiations...
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Longshore talks continue after contract expired
July 23, 2008West Coast longshore workers of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union are continuing talks with the employers’ Pacific Maritime Association for a new agreement, following the July 1 expiration of their contract. “We’re making progress and...
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McCain bashes workers, public education at NAACP meet
July 17, 2008“Bashing workers” was how AFL-CIO executive vice president Arlene Holt-Baker, characterized presumptive Republican nominee John McCain's speech at the 99th convention of the NAACP in Cincinnati on Wednesday. 'He took the opportunity to, quite frankly, bash...
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