– by James Parks President Bush’s decision to send the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to Congress over the strong objections of the leadership of both the House and the Senate “shows an outrageous disregard for basic human and workers’ rights,” AFL-CIO President John Sweeney says. In a statement, Sweeney says: Workers in Colombia are terrorized every day for standing […]
Crandall Canyon Families File Suit on Behalf of Miners Killed in August
– by Mike Hall The owners of the Crandall Canyon coal mine in Utah where six miners were killed last August used dangerous mining techniques and “were motivated by avarice and greed, at the expense of safety and human life,” the families of the six charged in a lawsuit filed in Salt Lake City last week. The lawsuit, filed April […]
Blue Green Alliance Teams with Gore to Create Green Jobs and Solve Climate Crisis
– by James Parks The Blue Green Alliance (BGA), a strategic partnership between the United Steelworkers (USW) and the Sierra Club, has joined with the Alliance for Climate Protection, the nonprofit organization founded by former Vice President and Nobel Prize winner Al Gore, to take action to solve the climate crisis. In a first-of-its-kind program, the BGA and USW […]
Inspectors Say FAA’s Coziness with Airlines Endangers Safety
by James Parks The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) relationship with the airline industry is endangering passenger safety, even to the point of punishing inspectors who discover violations, according to the union that represents airline safety inspectors. Tom Brantley, president of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists (PASS), told the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing yesterday on […]
Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.
To commemorate the 40th anniversary today of the death of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., we’ve excerpted a speech delivered today by AFL-CIO Organizing Director Stewart Acuff to the Southern Regional Meeting on April 4, 2008. Thank you for your welcome, but most importantly, thanks for all you do everyday. I am very proud […]
U.S. Jobs Tank Big Time
by Tula Connell Employers slashed 83,000 jobs in March, according to this morning’s monthly jobs report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, worsening the nation’s unemployment rate to 5.1 percent, up three-tenths of a percentage point since February. The job loss was far worse than even the most pessimistic of predictions, and was spread across industries, with […]
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