Labor
Miners plan work stoppage over anti-Obama film
September 24, 2008CHARLESTON, W.Va. – (AP)Union leaders say a National Rifle Association film crew tried to coerce West Virginia miners into bad-mouthing presidential hopeful Barack Obama on camera, and that the union plans a brief work stoppage in...
Read moreProtect your vote
September 24, 2008This year’s historic election may come down to two major factors: how many people turn out to the polls, and how many of their votes are counted. Voter turnout increased more than 120 percent during the...
Read moreGOP targets key states with dirty tricks
September 20, 2008The AFL-CIO has launched a new voting rights protection program to help protect working-class voters against dirty tricks in the fall elections. My Vote, My Right aims “to ensure votes cast at the ballot box are...
Read moreImmokalee slavery case called ‘beyond outrage’
September 20, 2008In a federal case, five members of a family in Immokalee, Fla., pleaded guilty Sept. 2 to enslaving Mexican and Guatemalan farm workers for more than two years. Slavery in the United States has been banned...
Read moreOhio labor: ‘Obama will be a great president’
September 18, 2008CLEVELAND — Fired up by three days of powerful and rousing speeches, 1,000 delegates and guests at the Ohio AFL-CIO 26th biennial convention here fanned out to the far corners of the state to campaign for...
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