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 those stalled rules, it may have prevented the deaths of 13 workers in a Georgia sugar plant explosion in […]
Minnesota Activists Tell Coleman: No Bandage Fix for Health Care
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 needs serious and comprehensive reform—not a “Bandage Solution.” The activists marched to Coleman’s office in St. Paul and at a […]
Women Achieve Workplace Equality-Now as Likely to Lose Jobs as Men in Recession
by 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 Committee, women are now working in jobs and industries that are more likely to lay off workers than they were in […]
Minnesota Activists Tell Coleman: No Bandage Fix for Health Care
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 health care system needs serious and comprehensive reform—not a “Bandage Solution.” The activists marched to Coleman’s office in St. Paul and at […]
Rally Demands Free Elections, End of Zimbabwe Government Violence
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 government-sponsored violence against opponents. The demonstration was sponsored by the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, the Transafrica Forum, the AFL-CIO and several other […]
At Worksites and Doors, Union Members Get Out the Message
Posted 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 history, union volunteers are working hard to educate other members about why they support Sen. Barack Obama and intend […]
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