Sunday Vote On Healthcare: Where Is OUR Proper Representation?
Region: United States
Is Stern-World Obama’s World? Health care cost control? No problem: the Teamsters will help run it with the "Coalition to Win" of Andy Stern. "Using Obama's words against him is particularly effective a day after... more
Views: 1390Obama: McCain Won’t Fight for America’s Jobs
Region: United States
Posted by Seth Michaels to AFL-CIO NOW With the economy on everyone’s minds, Sen. Barack Obama has released a new radio ad drawing a clear contrast between him and his opponent on jobs. The ad (which yo... more
Views: 3152Obama to AFL-CIO Council: He’s Counting on Union Movement
Region: Illinois
Posted by Mike Hall to AFL-CIO NOW Barack Obama told the AFL-CIO Executive Council he is counting on the union movement’s largest-ever voter mobilization to play a key role in his drive to take back the White House ... more
Views: 2746Death and the Bush Administration
Region: United StatesPosted by Tula Connell to AFL-CIO NOW Last week, a confluence of events reminded the U.S. public that it’s not just the food we eat that’s increasingly dangerous in our daily lives—inadequate safety on... more
Views: 1574Verizon Contract Talks Continue Past Strike Deadline
Region: United States
Posted by James Parks to AFL-CIO NOW Negotiators returned to the bargaining table today in an effort to agree on a fair contract for the 85,000 employees who work for Verizon along the East Coast from Massachusetts to Vir... more
Views: 2134Answering the Rumors About Obama
Region: United States
Posted by Seth Michaels to AFL-CIO NOW Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign for president is based on working-family values and important issues like health care, jobs and fair trade. Naturally, the right-wing rumor... more
Views: 1832Minnesota Activists Tell Coleman: No Bandage Fix for Health Care
Region: United States
Posted by Mike Hall to AFL-CIO NOW Bandages may work OK for scraped knees, but as Working America members and union activists in Minnesota told Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) today, the nation’s broken hea... more
Views: 1656Rally Demands Free Elections, End of Zimbabwe Government Violence
Region: District of Columbia
Posted by Mike Hall to AFL-CIO NOW Nearly 100 trade unionists and other worker justice activists marched outside Zimbabwe’s embassy in Washington, D.C., yesterday demanding fair and free elections and an end to... more
Views: 1501U.S. Health Care Erodes, Costs Too Much, Covers Too Little, Excludes Too Many
Region: United States
Posted by Mike Hall to AFL-CIO NOW Not only is the U.S. health care system on the “wrong track” and needs to “change direction,” but its performance is declining, it costs too much and rank... more
Views: 1154Unions Lend Helping Hand to Midwest Flood Victims
Region: Iowa
By James Parks for AFL-CIO NOW As last month’s devastating floods in the Midwest crept toward Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Dean Shannon, secretary of Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 7101, came home to find a We... more
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