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• Changing One Woman’s Life in Oklahoma in Only Eight Hours

  
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  Reposted from AFL-CIO NOW Dorothy was a longtime activist with the Communication Workers of America ( CWA ) and the  Oklahoma State AFL-CIO . In the summer of 2012, she lost her only son and found that her home, which she bought for her retirement, was in serious need of repair. That’s when her church, Journey ...
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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

• ‘Working Families Flexibility Act’ Doesn’t Give Flexibility or Support to Working Families

  
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  by Rep. Gwen Moore and Arlene Holt Baker This article originally appeared at  The Huffington Post . In a  perfect gift for mothers, just short of Mother’s Day, House Republicans have once again introduced legislation with a charming title and a potentially devastating impact for working women and families. ...
  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 ...
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• New York City Council OK’s Paid Sick Leave for More Than 1 Million Workers

  
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  Reposted from AFL-CIO NOW New York City workers will receive, starting next year, five  paid sick days a year to care for themselves or an ill family member under a measure the New York City Council passed (45-3) this afternoon. The vote culminates a four-year effort by a powerful coalition of workers, unions ...
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• 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 ...
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• Vets Deserve Better Than Walmart’s $8.81 an Hour

  
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  Reposted from AFL-CIO NOW Last week, Walmart said it would speed up its plan to hire returning military veterans that it had  announced in January . AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says Walmart’s latest move “is more about public relations than honoring our heroes.” We owe it to our returning veterans to ...
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• 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 ...
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• Do unions really want job-destroying wage rises in Bangladesh?

  
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  Garment workers in a Bangladesh clothing factory. Photo: Jankie In the aftermath of the death toll in Bangladesh’s worst ever factory disaster last week, much has been written ( including by us! ) about what needs to be done to prevent further tragedies. Most attention has focused on what the Bangladesh ...
  3 weeks ago

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

  
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  Reposted from AFL-CIO NOW 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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Where Does Nationals Player Bryce Harper Get His Work Ethic? His Ironworker Dad, That’s Where

  
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  Washington Nationals wunderkind outfielder Bryce Harper works hard. Where does he get that work ethic? His father, a union ironworker from Las Vegas , who installs rebar on construction sites in sometimes extreme conditions. Check out this clip from ESPN’s “Bryce Begins.” The entire special aired Tuesday ...
  3 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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• 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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• 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 ...
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• How Corporations Use Offshore Havens to Avoid Paying Their Taxes

  
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  Reposted from AFL-CIO NOW Current laws in the United States allow corporations to use offshore havens to avoid paying their taxes and, if it’s up to many in Washington, the problem will only grow larger, particularly if the so-called “territorial” tax system is passed. The details of the use of such tax havens ...
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• EPI: Missouri’s Paycheck Deception Bills Not Necessary to Protect Workers

  
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  Resposted from AFL-CIO NOW A  new report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) shows that two Missouri paycheck deception bills are not necessary to protect workers and they would limit the free speech and political spending of unions and organized workers, while allowing unlimited corporate spending on ...
  4 weeks ago

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