Obama: McCain Won’t Fight for America’s Jobs

AFL CIO a year ago 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

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Obama to AFL-CIO Council: He’s Counting on Union Movement

AFL CIO a year ago 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

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Death and the Bush Administration

AFL CIO a year ago Region: United States

Posted 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

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Verizon Contract Talks Continue Past Strike Deadline

AFL CIO a year ago 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

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Answering the Rumors About Obama

AFL CIO a year ago 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

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Minnesota Activists Tell Coleman: No Bandage Fix for Health Care

AFL CIO a year ago 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

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Rally Demands Free Elections, End of Zimbabwe Government Violence

AFL CIO a year ago 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

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U.S. Health Care Erodes, Costs Too Much, Covers Too Little, Excludes Too Many

AFL CIO a year ago 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

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Unions Lend Helping Hand to Midwest Flood Victims

AFL CIO a year ago 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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Senate Votes to Extend Unemployment Insurance

AFL CIO a year ago Region: United States

Mike Hall       More than a half year after the AFL-CIO urged Congress to provide extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits to jobless workers who exhaust theirs without finding new work, Congress pa... more

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