House Passes Unemployment Aid For Third Time
Region: United States
For the third time in little more than a month, the House today voted (416-12) to extend unemployment insurancebenefits (UI) to unemployed workers who run out of benefits without finding new work. This time, the jobl... more
Views: 522Earnings Gap Between Executives and Employees Growing
Region: United States
In 2007, the CEO of a Standard & Poor’s 500 company received, on average, $14.2 million, according to preliminary numbers from The Corporate Library, a corporate governance research firm. The median compensation pack... more
Views: 2161Challenges Lay Ahead for American Middle Class, Says Author
Region: United States
AFL-CIO recently spoke to Steve Greenhouse, author of The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker Question: Why did you title your book The Big Squeeze? Greenhouse: I really feel there’s a squeeze on worke... more
Views: 830We Can't Afford Another Train Wreck, Says Bestselling Author
Region: United States
The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of GroundReport. ALF-CIO recently spoke to Bill Press, author of New York Times bestseller Train Wreck: The End of the Conservative Revolution (And Not ... more
Views: 707Hunger 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
Views: 1402Mine 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
Views: 1583McCain: 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
Views: 1233Kentucky, 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
Views: 1283Casino 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
Views: 2356How 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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