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Obama 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
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Verizon 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
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France Allows Longer Workweek, Drawing Fire and Praise
Region: France
Posted by Shannon Firth to findingDulcinea France’s conservatives are celebrating and believe the country can now fulfill one of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s key campaign slogans: “work more to earn more.... more
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Unions 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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Hunger Striker Hospitalized, Others Rally on Capitol Hill
Region: United States
by Mike Hall This morning, Christopher Glory, in the eighth day of a water-onlyhunger strike to demand the U.S. government put an end to the abuses in a visa program that workers’ rights ad... more
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Mine Workers Back Obama for President
Region: United States
by Seth Michaels The Mine Workers (UMWA) union has endorsed Sen.Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for president. The National Council of the Coal Miners’ Political Action Committee of t... more
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McCain: Out of Touch on Trade
Region: United States
by Seth Michaels At a speech in Florida yesterday, Sen. John McCainmade a baffling pronouncement: The rising discontent in our country is not due to job losses, home foreclosures or the health care crisis,... more
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Kentucky, West Virginia Union Members Ask McCain About the Economy
Region: United States
by Seth Michaels On Friday, Sen. John McCain took a campaign swing through two states and, as they have in cities and towns across the nation, union members mobilized to ask him about the important is... more
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Casino Workers Protest Unfair Treatment at Foxwoods
Region: United States
by James Parks As the celebrities and invitation-only guests poured into the new MGM Grand at Foxwoods Resort and Casino in Ledyard, Conn., over the weekend, they met some unexpected greeters—casino emplo... more
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How Fast Can You Surf? Take CWA’s Speed Test
Region: United States
by Mike Hall Are you one of the millions of Americans in rural or low-income urban areas who doesn’t have access to high-speed Internet and can only go online via frustratingly slow dial-up? You wait and ... more
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