Labor

                
  • Miners plan work stoppage over anti-Obama film

    Miners plan work stoppage over anti-Obama film

    September 24, 2008

    CHARLESTON, 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...

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  • Protect your vote

    Protect your vote

    September 24, 2008

    This 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...

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  • GOP targets key states with dirty tricks

    GOP targets key states with dirty tricks

    September 20, 2008

    The 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...

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  • Immokalee slavery case called ‘beyond outrage’

    Immokalee slavery case called ‘beyond outrage’

    September 20, 2008

    In 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...

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  • Ohio labor: ‘Obama will be a great president’

    Ohio labor: ‘Obama will be a great president’

    September 18, 2008

    CLEVELAND — 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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