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Retired, but fighting: ARA stands up for Social Security (video)

July 15, 2011 By Teresa Albano

Barbara Easterling, president of the 4-million-member Alliance for Retired Americans, tells it like it is about Social Security and the budget crisis.

Union Summer interns work to save endangered shipyard

July 14, 2011 By Blake Skylar

"We're a pretty good team," says Sarah Mandel, one of a group of young interns working here to stop the Avondale shipyard from closing.

Trumka, others push jobs ideas while GOP plays chicken

July 13, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and other panelists convened by the labor federation offered ideas on July 11 on how to get the U.S. out of its persistent jobs crisis.

Unionists say America needs collective bargaining

July 13, 2011 By Luis Rivas

"Our challenge is to build a movement that restores the American Dream," said Communications Workers of America President Larry Cohen.

CWA: “We’ve had no choice but to fight”

July 12, 2011 By Teresa Albano

Carolyn Wade didn't go looking for a fight, but she's in the middle of a big one: some call it a war on workers.