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• Start Your After-Christmas Shopping at The Union Shop Online™

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 636
        So you thanked Aunt Tillie for the psychedelic tie and didn’t roll your eyes when you opened the fuzzy Batman slippers with blinking lights from your kids. But if you cringe at the thought of day-after Christmas, door-buster crowds at the big-box stores and malls, you can flesh out your gift stash ...
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• Five SAG Lifetime Achievement Winners Featured in Film Marathon

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 636
      Ruby Dee and Sidney Poitier starred in the 1961 movie “A Raisin in The Sun.”         One night before the Screen Actors ( SAG ) honor Hollywood’s finest performers, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will pay tribute to five actors who won SAG’ s highest honor: the Life Achievement ...
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• Senate Passes Health Care Bill

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 636
        The Senate passed health care reform by a 60-39 margin shortly after 7:00 a.m. While passage of this bill shows the momentum continues toward health care reform, the Senate bill itself doesn’t live up to the kind of reform we need. The bill has many positive features, but it falls short in ...
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• Lie of the Year: ‘Death Panel’ Attack on Health Care Reform

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 636
  This year, opponents of health care reform hit new lows in promoting misleading, inaccurate or flat-out dishonest information. The worst of these lies was the scam that health care reform would create “death panels” whose members would judge whether to end seniors’ lives. The website PolitiFact called the ...
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• Copenhagen’s Legacy: Future in the Balance

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 636
  Roger Toussaint, international vice president and director of strategic planning of the Transport Workers Union ( TWU ), sent us a final report from the climate change talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, where 40 U.S. union members were part of a 400-member global union movement delegation led by the International ...
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• The Need to Help Labor Radio Survive

  
  Censored Whig Letters — Authority: 114
  The Need to Help Labor Radio Survive In these terrible economic times, it is hard to keep the bills paid for most working families. We all are struggling to stay in our homes, keep our old cars on the road and food on the table. Americans are certainly worried with good reason about keeping their jobs and affording ...
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• The Gift America Needs Most: Manufacturing

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 636
  In Columbus, Ohio, a 5-year-old girl jumped onto Santa’s lap last month and asked if he could give her dad a job as an elf.  Mike Smith, who works the Santa station at the Polaris Fashion Place in Columbus, asked why, the Wall Street Journal  reported. The little girl in the Dora the Explorer sweatshirt ...
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• Working More, Getting Paid Less

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 636
  Productivity rose 8.1 percent in the third quarter, the largest gain since 2003, as employers pile more on their staff. Meanwhile, pay is stagnating and worker stress increasing because of the larger workloads and the constant fear of being thrown out of a job to join the more than 15 million workers ...
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• The Army of Amazons

  
  The Economic Populist - Speak Your Mind 2 Cents at a Time — Authority: 559
  "Well-behaved women rarely make history." - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich On a cold Sunday morning, December 11, 1921, in the tiny frontier town of Franklin, Kansas, five hundred women crowded into a church hall. Men were excluded. They were mostly immigrants from eastern Europe. They were hungry, angry, and ...
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• Trumka: Senate Health Care Bill Must Change to Be Real Reform

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 636
  The health care bill being considered by the U.S. Senate is inadequate and too tilted toward the insurance industry, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said today. In recent days, as the Senate has debated health care reform, small numbers of senators have held health care hostage by threatening to block a vote. The ...
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• Religious Leaders, Union Members Remember Those Who Died Without Health Care

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 636
        California Labor Federation communications organizer Rebecca Greenberg reports on a vigil by San Francisco union members and the faith community that highlighted the nation’s broken health care system. While holiday shoppers bustled joyously around San Francisco’s busy Union Square shopping ...
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• Egyptian Workers Seek Good Trade Deals

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 636
  Dan Heck, Midwest regional director for Working America , recently visited Egypt as a member of a three-person delegation sponsored by the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center . This is his second post about his impressions of that country’s emerging independent union movement. Read Heck’s first post here . To learn ...
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• Indian auto sales surge 71.9% while free trade vaults Chile into the first world

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 557
  Before, I wrote about India’s election results and the decision of the ruling Congress Party to drastically cut income taxes . And I also wrote about China’s decision to cut taxes on purchases of new automobiles . So did those tax cuts work out for India and China? Story from the Associated Press ...
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• Working for Scrooge: Worst Companies of 2009 for the Right to Associate

  
  Labor is Not a Commodity — Authority: 118
  Tim Newman, Campaigns Director, International Labor Rights Forum Today is International Human Rights Day!  People around the world are celebrating and taking action  today to protect the rights outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).  Among other protections for workers, the UDHR ...
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• Human Rights Day: Fighting for Domestic Workers

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 636
  Today, International Human Rights Day, the National Domestic Worker Alliance is joining with domestic workers around the world to launch a campaign to call for improved labor standards for their industry. Domestic work, which includes housecleaning, child-care and elder care, is not covered by many basic labor ...
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• Massachusetts Apollo Wins Key Victory

  
  Apollo Alliance — Authority: 461
  On Oct. 27, Massachusetts solidified its leadership in tackling climate change and creating good jobs by adopting a $1.4 billion plan to improve residential energy efficiency in working class communities. The Green Justice Coalition, an Apollo Alliance chapter comprised of community, labor and environmental groups, ...
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• Bob Creamer, Architect of ObamaCare, and His Pattern of Corruption

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  Before left-wing activist Bob Creamer escorted his wife, Illinois Democratic Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky to the Obama state dinner, before he penned his blue print for the socialist agenda from his federal prison cell, before he committed felony bank fraud and was indicted on 34 counts involving misuse of $2.4 ...
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• Fighting for Real Reform on Capitol Hill and Across the Country

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 636
  Today and tomorrow, more than 100 union leaders and activists from around the nation are visiting their senators and representatives to let them know they urgently need to pass health care reform—the right way.  The exact shape of the Senate’s bill is in flux right now, and the union leaders are ...
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• MTA Whistleblower Says He Was Pushed Onto Subway Tracks

  
  StationStops — Authority: 112
  MTA worker Juan de los Santos, 43, anonymously exposed waste in the agency last year by identifying labor practices that had track workers working only 2-4 hours a DAY during 8-hr work shifts. Now del los Santos has identified himself and says that he was pushed onto the subway tracks, possibly by another worker in ...
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• David Brooks: An Innovation Agenda

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 585
  The American model remains an impressive growth engine, even allowing for the debt-fueled bubble. The U.S. economy grew by 63 percent between 1991 and 2009, compared with 35 percent for France, 22 percent for Germany and 16 percent for Japan over the same period. In 1975, the U.S. accounted for 26.3 percent of world ...
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