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GOP seeks immediate cut in Dept of Labor budget

February 15, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

House Republicans are seeking large cuts in domestic programs for the rest of this fiscal year - including 21 percent from the Labor Department - and they promise more to come next year.

Social Security victory shows organizing is the way

February 14, 2011 By Bruce Bostick

The struggle to protect Social Security from the Republicans and the Fiscal Reform Commission won a victory in President Obama's State of the Union address, and there's a lesson here.

What Frederick Douglass tells us about today

February 14, 2011 By Sam Webb

Frederick Douglass was one of the great people’s leaders of the 19th century. And yet his towering intellect and multifaceted political experience have been insufficiently appreciated.

Airport screeners go union

February 14, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

AFGE President John Gage happily announced Transportation Security Administration administrator John Pistole's ruling.

Union happy with new Obama crackdown on mine owners

February 8, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

Mine workers welcome Obama's plan to make it easier in cracking down on coal companies that are constant safety violators. However specific rules need to be enforced in order to further erode the systemic problem, unions...