Labor
Plumbers, Unite Here endorse Obama
January 18, 2008Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama won the backing Jan. 9 of the 60,000-strong Culinary Workers Union in Nevada. The endorsement followed announcements by the 450,000-member parent union, Unite Here, and the national Plumbers and Pipefitters Union...
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Clevelanders picket Wal-Mart
January 12, 2008Photo by Debbie Kline who heads up Cleveland Jobs With Justice. Some of the 100 participants in a holiday picket Dec. 19 at the Wal-Mart in downtown Cleveland. The event was sponsored by Cleveland Jobs with...
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Labor support for Obama grows as unions eye 2008 elections
January 12, 2008Barack Obama won the backing on Jan. 9 of the 60,000 strong Culinary Workers Union in Nevada, boosting his campaign for the presidency. Nevada voters will caucus on Jan. 19 to select their delegates to the...
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Air Controllers declare safety emergency, take campaign to Capitol Hill
January 12, 2008WASHINGTON (PAI)--Saying the safety situation in the nation’s skies, especially over Chicago, New York, Atlanta and Southern California, is dire, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association has declared a “controller emergency” in those four areas. And...
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Labor returns to Memphis for Martin Luther King Day events
January 12, 2008MEMPHIS, Tenn. (PAI)--The labor movement will return to Memphis, Tenn., site of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination as he was supporting striking African-American sanitation workers, for its 40th anniversary commemoration of the great civil rights leader’s...
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