The Postal Workers (APWU) union has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in the presidential race. The Postal Workers’ national executive board endorsed Obama in a unanimous vote. The more than 300,000-member union is the sixth union affiliated with the AFL-CIO to back Obama. Postal Workers President William Burrus says Obama’s campaign offers a unique opportunity for working families. […]
House Committee Approves Bill to Address Deadly Dust Explosions
Sugar dust, like other industrial dusts, is extremely combustible, but despite the urging of safety experts, the Bush administration’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has yet to set a federal standard to control combustible dust levels. Today, the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee approved a bill to force OSHA to issue combustible […]
Video: A New Economic Deal Starts with Workers’ Rights
by Seth Michaels In recent years, our nation’s social contract has been radically re-written. Despite growth in productivity and the overall size of the economy, most of us aren’t seeing our share of U.S. prosperity. Economic health has been redefined as corporate health. The result is that the economy as we know it […]
Gap Between America’s Rich and Poor Worsened in Past Two Decades
– by Mike Hall The gap between the wealthiest and the rest of us grew significantly during the past two decades, leaving lower- and middle-class families at more risk during the current economic downturn/recession confronting the nation, a new study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) finds. The […]
AFL-CIO Urges Congress to ‘Stop the Colombia Free Trade Agreement’
by James Parks, Apr 8, 2008 As the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is being introduced on Capitol Hill, working families are launching an advertising campaign to get Congress to reject the deal.An ad sponsored by the AFL-CIO will run in three Capitol Hill newspapers tomorrow. The ad urges lawmakers “Don’t Reward Murder. Stop the […]
NPR Series Looks at What Really Happens When Immigrant Workers Are Deported
– by James Parks Much of the debate over immigration reform focuses on the status of undocumented workers in this country. Often lost is any discussion about why so many immigrants come to the United States and what happens when they are deported and return home. As the United States has intensified its crackdown on immigration in recent years, […]
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