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Confronting corporate ideology in the fight for jobs

January 13, 2010 By Bruce Bostick And Wally Kaufman

The struggle for jobs must challenge ideas of "market supremacy" - downgrading everything public - and "supply side" trickle-down economics. (Part 2 of 3-part series)

Jobs for America Now can be catalyst for mass action

January 13, 2010 By Bruce Bostick And Wally Kaufman

This is a solid progressive program that would turn our nation around. But a mass movement is needed to win its enactment. (Part 1 of 3-part series.)

Trumka: Time for a new economy

January 11, 2010 By Richard Trumka

The full text of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka's speech on labor's agenda for a new economy at the National Press Club.

GOP anti-union stance weakens national security

January 6, 2010 By John Wojcik

A bunch of right-wing Republicans led by Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina are trying to blame the labor movement for airport security weaknesses.

Even the Washington Post agrees: It was a ‘Decade of Disaster!’

January 4, 2010 By John Wojcik

It took the Washington Post until almost a year after he left office to do it, but on its front page Jan. 2 the paper, which normally emphasizes happy economic news, printed a report that described...