Labor
Labor-led coalition demands recovery plan for Main Street
October 10, 2008Leaders of many of the nation’s most powerful unions have joined with heads of dozens of progressive community and political organizations to map out an economic recovery plan for Main Street. In a message titled “A...
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In Virginia, military families mobilize
October 9, 2008NORFOLK, Va. — Stacie Burgess, wife of an active-duty sailor in the U.S. Navy, was in the crowd at an Oct. 4 rally of 20,000 in Newport News where Obama urged a last-minute push to register...
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Machinists show grit as strike enters month two
October 3, 2008The strike launched Sept. 4 by the Machinists against Boeing, the nation’s largest airplane maker, shows perhaps as well as anything else the rising tide of anger among American workers and their determination to fight. The...
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Union leader Rugola: This is our fight for democracy
October 3, 2008White, African-American unionists unite for Obama COLUMBUS, Ohio — At organized labor’s Get Out The Vote mobilization here last week, Ohio AFL-CIO President Joe Rugola announced that he will walk across the state, stopping at shut-down...
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Joblessness soars, income drops, manufacturing shrinks, govt reports
October 3, 2008First time applications for unemployment benefits skyrocketed to a seven year high in September as more workers lost their jobs in an economy that John McCain described, only two weeks ago, as “basically sound.” Initial jobless...
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