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  • Republicans and business push to expand guest worker programs


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    Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) Guest worker visas are resurfacing as one of the most contentious parts of immigration reform negotiations. Despite the compromise deal between the Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO that went into the bipartisan Senate proposal, there are a number of Republican efforts to increase numbers ...
    5 days ago

  • AFL-CIO Speaks Out Against… Our Military Vets?


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    -By Warner Todd Huston Apparently, the haters at the AFL-CIO decided that military veterans shouldn’t be allowed to take jobs offered by Walmart. Recently Walmart announced a program to hire 100,000 military vets as a “welcome home” gift when they return from service. This brought the anti-veterans at the ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Labor Wrestles With Its Future


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    Harold Meyerson Labor wrestles with its future By Harold Meyerson, Since the emergence of capitalism, workers seeking higher pay and safer workplaces have banded together in guilds and unions to pressure their employers for a better deal. That has been the approach of the American labor movement for the past 200 ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Shameful: AFL-CIO chief takes White House to task for supporting Walmart5 hiring veterans...


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    Trumka should be ashamed to pose in front of our flag As if we needed another reason to dislike the AFL-CIO... Via NRO : From the “What On Earth Where They Thinking?” files: Union boss Rich Trumka, head of the powerful AFL-CIO, has taken the White House to task for the president’s support of a Walmart ...
    2 weeks ago

  • D.C. Circuit Rebukes NLRB Activism, Again


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    One of the Obama National Labor Relations Board’s payoffs to Big Labor bosses was a rule requiring that employers provide notice to employees of their rights to unionize . The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that that requirement violated the National Labor Relations Act and the First Amendment, and ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Labor chief blasts WALMART’s plan to hire returning military vets


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    AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka bashed President Obama and Vice President Biden for “valorizing” Walmart pledges to hire returning veterans. “Walmart’s recent announcement of a plan to hire returning honorably discharged veterans is more about public relations than honoring our heroes,” Trumka said. ...
    2 weeks ago

  • The Future of Work, Unions? Tune into the AFL-CIO Tweet Chat with President Trumka


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    by Jackie Tortora We need to talk—about the future of workers and the union movement. We’ve all seen the numbers: People are working harder (and have longer hours) and still can’t get ahead. Staggering inequality is on the rise and fewer workers have a voice on the job. So we’re asking the tough ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Los Inmigrantes Merecen Legalización Sin Ataduras


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    Por LISA LUINENBURG Socialist Action Millones de inmigrantes indocumentados y sus familias, amigos y aliados esperaron con esperanza la revelación, el martes 16 de abril, de la nueva propuesta de Reforma Migratoria Comprensiva. A pesar de las altas esperanzas, la nueva legislación incluye muchas provisiones ...
    3 weeks ago

  • IAM, TWU agree on how they”ll put together their seniority lists after the US Airways-American Airlines merger


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    … Leaders at the unions representing ground workers at US Airways and American Airlines have agreed on how they’ll merge their seniority lists, according to union documents. That agreement, announced this weekend, would avoid a potentially nasty fight that easily could disrupt the combining of operations ...
    3 weeks ago

  • Statehouse ceremony to remember workers killed on the job


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    Working Hoosiers along with victims’ families will come together MONDAY MORNING to honor the memories of 171 workers who were killed on the job in Indiana in 2012.
    3 weeks ago

  • Impact of FAA furloughs felt nationwide


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    4 weeks ago

  • How Unions Are Getting Their Groove Back


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    by Harold Meyerson Harold Meyerson Yesterday—April 24th—was a red-letter day in the annals of worker mobilization in post-collective-bargaining America. In Chicago, hundreds of fast-food and retail employees who work in the Loop and along the Magnificent Mile called a one-day strike and demonstrated for ...
    4 weeks ago

  • Reading the Tea Leaves on Huge SEIU-NUHW Decert in California


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    New Orleans   First come the disclaimers.    I have no stomach for this 5 year saga in California that has created a huge rift in the labor movement as folks picked sides between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the National Union of Healthcare Workers’   (NUHW).   Depending on how ...
    4 weeks ago

  • Stronger unions are at the heart of improving global labour standards


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    Yesterday the AFL-CIO, our sister union confederation in the USA, released the report   ‘Responsibility Outsourced’  which immediately made a splash online as it holds no punches criticising a number of American CSR initiatives. It argues, they are too reluctant to advocate for workers rights, failing to ...
    4 weeks ago

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