Bush Labor Dept. Secretly Writes Rule on Worker Exposure to Toxins
Region: United States
For seven and a half years, the Bush administration has delayed and sometimes just refused to act on workplace safety and health rules that could save lives and prevent serious injuries. Had the administration acted on tho... more
Views: 651Minnesota Activists Tell Coleman: No Bandage Fix for Health Care
Region: Minnesota
by Mike Hall, Jul 23, 2008 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 health care system need... more
Views: 520Women Achieve Workplace Equality—Now as Likely to Lose Jobs as Men in Recession
Region: United Statesby Mike Hall, Jul 23, 2008 With the U.S. economy sputtering toward recession, working women and their families will feel more pain than in past downturns. According to a report by the congressional Joint Economic C... more
Views: 1418Minnesota 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: 1657Rally 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: 1501At Worksites and Doors, Union Members Get Out the Message
Region: ColoradoPosted by Seth Michaels to AFL-CIO NOW In key states around the country, the union vote will make the difference this fall. As part of the Labor 2008 program, the largest union voter mobilization in hist... more
Views: 841U.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: 1156Netroots Nation Labor Caucus Stresses Employee Free Choice
Region: United States
by Seth Michaels, Jul 18, 2008 The Netroots Nation conference has come to Austin, Texas, this year, and it’s brought together people from across the progressive movement. State, local and national bloggers are taki... more
Views: 555Author/Reporter Phil Dine: Unions Equal Economic Strength
Region: United States
by Mike Hall, Jul 17, 2008 The nation’s labor movement is “more relevant... more
Views: 529AFL-CIO in Coalition to Fight McCain’s Efforts to Gamble Away Social Security
Region: United States
by Mike Hall, Jul 17, 2008 Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has voted to protect and strengthen Social Security and against privatizing the nation’s most successful retirement security program. On the other ha... more
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