Blue Green Alliance Teams with Gore to Create Green Jobs and Solve Climate Crisis

AFL CIO 5 years ago Region: United States

 - by James Parks The Blue Green Alliance (BGA), a strategic partnership between the United Steelworkers (USW) and the Sierra Club, has joined with the Alliance for Climate Protection, the nonpr... more

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Hawaii Legislature Passes Employee Free Choice Measure

AFL CIO 5 years ago Region: United States

by James Parks With passage of the federal Employee Free Choice Act a major issue for working people in the 2008 elections, lawmakers in Hawaii last week passed their own version of the bill. Union members were key to pa... more

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Houston Nurses Vote For Union

AFL CIO 5 years ago Region: United States

by James Parks While most Texans are mourning the Texas Longhorns’ loss in the NCAA basketball tournament yesterday, nearly 300 nurses in Houston are celebrating their own enormous victory. The registered nurses at... more

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13,000 Delta Air Lines Flight Attendants Get Date to Vote on Union

AFL CIO 5 years ago Region: United States

by May Silverstein, Mar 31, 2008 The National Mediation Board (NMB) set April 23–June 3, 2008, for the mail/telephone ballot elections in which 13,000 Delta Air Lines flight attendants will vote on whether to join ... more

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Act Now to Stop Slave Labor in Florida’s Tomato Fields

AFL CIO 5 years ago Region: Florida

 by James Parks More than 100 years after our nation ended slavery, the mostly immigrant workers who today pick tomatoes for the fast-food industry still are being treated like slaves. They are among... more

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Exposing McCain’s ‘Free Ride’

AFL CIO 5 years ago Region: United States

 by Seth Michaels Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is running for president, and he’s running on a Bush-style platform that won’t turn America around for working families. In a time of economic crisis, t... more

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Cool Tools Highlights ‘Workingman’s Death’

AFL CIO 5 years ago Region: United States

With the annual Workers Memorial Day commemoration coming up next month, the AFL-CIO Cool Toolsselection is highlighting “Workingman’s Death,” a movie documenting six of the most dange... more

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Chavez-Thompson Honored as Beloved Champion for All Workers

AFL CIO 5 years ago Region: United States

by James Parks, Mar 24, 2008   Hundreds of people turned out last week in the nation’s capital to honor one of the union movement’s most beloved leaders, AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Emerita Lin... more

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Voting Scorecard: McCain Missing in Action for Middle Class

AFL CIO 5 years ago Region: United States

by James Parks, Mar 19, 2008 Yet another voting record shows the two Democratic presidential candidates, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, voted to help those caught in the middle-class squeeze of stagnant wages a... more

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U.N. Agency Says NLRB Violates Workers’ Rights

AFL CIO 5 years ago Region: United States

by James Parks, Mar 19, 2008 A key international agency ruled today that the Bush administration’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is denying workers’ rights in violation of international labor standard... more

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