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Honor Officer Rivera: Don't Slash Prison Staffing Budgets
By James Parks for AFL-CIO NOW For years, AFGE’s Council of Prison Locals (CPL), the union representing correctional officers in the nation’s federal prisons, has been pushing for more funding and staffing to safely maintain our nation’s prisons and surrounding communities. The union warns that staffing levels are decreasing while inmate population levels are increasing, leaving the correctional officers and the communities in grave danger. Tragically, on June 20, those wa... more
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Bear Sterns B.S.
The views expressed in this article are not necessarily the endorsed by AFL-CIO or GroundReport.com By Jeff Crosby “We just lost a big chunk of our retirement,” grumbled more than one person down at the Union Hall last week, when General Electric Co. (GE) stock tumbled. “I got two houses on my street under foreclosure already,” added Pete Capano, a resident of Lynn, Mass. We are entering the fear stage of the recession, where people swap stories about the trouble we&... more
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Mccain's Colombia Policies ...
AFL CIO 4 days agoBy Seth Michaels for AFL-CIO NOW While Sen. Barack Obama campaigns in America’s heartland over the Fourth of July holiday, Sen. John McCain is heading out of the country. He’s on his way to Colombia, where he plans to stump for anti-worker trade deals like the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Apparently McCain decided, in the midst of a hot presidential election ... more
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