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 for working families on Election Day. Speaking via video conference at the council’s two-day meeting in Chicago this […]
Wal-Mart’s Attempt to Kill Employee Choice Backfires
Posted by James Parks to AFL-CIO NOW When Wal-Mart tried to squelch the Employee Free Choice Act by requiring its employees to sit through mandatory meetings that stress the downside for workers if stores were to be unionized, it didn’t expect the idea would backfire. But after The Wall Street Journal broke the story Friday, […]
Drunk and Cheap. Bad Date? Nope. Chamber of Commerce Staff
Posted by Tula Connell to AFL-CIO NOW They may be party animals when chugging $8,204 worth of booze, but after the hangover is over, the staff at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce goes back to being their ugly anti-worker selves. Seems that some 100 or so Chamber of Commerce staff recently ran up an $8,204 […]
Workers Urge Democrats to Focus Platform on Employee Choice, Jobs, Health Care, Trade
Posted by James Parks to AFL-CIO NOW In recent decades, corporate power has grown at the expense of ordinary workers, who see the results every day—in exported jobs, stagnant wages, lost pensions and unaffordable health care. And union members have urged the Democratic Party and its nominee, Sen. Barack Obama, to make restoring that balance […]
Death and the Bush Administration
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 the job still is killing America’s working people. The week ended with two more deaths from construction cranes, this time in […]
Verizon Contract Talks Continue Past Strike Deadline
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 Virginia. Just minutes before the current contract was set to expire Aug. 2, the workers, members of […]
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