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The Rocky Mountain News today takes a closer look at Protect Colorado’s Future and its use of “real” people in advertisements to foist its deceptive messages on the public: Firefighter Joel Heinemann says he would rather run into a burning building than face a movie camera.

Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Although it’s getting too big to be a microcosm, Wal-Mart is a fair representation of many of the most troubling aspects of the American economy, according to this lively and insightful profile of the big-box retail leviathan.

And by Orange, I mean, Vincent Orange. Same guy who said this: "We shouldn't force people to have to join a union," Orange said. "This is not in the best interests of the city." So, it should come as no surprise that this bastion of Worker Hate won a seat yesterday to the Democratic National Committee.

The Prison Officers' Association has submitted an excellent resolution on trade union freedom to this year's TUC Congress. Marking a change from the annual charade of passing a resolution denouncing the anti-union laws but doing little concrete about it, the POA proposes a series of one-day general strikes to demand trade union freedom.

Wal-Mart may have inadvertently done workers a big favor with its threats that a Democratic victory in November could lead to passage of a new law making organizing unions easier. Now progressive media and cable shows are giving the right to unionize greater attention, and a petition drive has been

  Hat Tip: By CHUCK BARTELS AND ANNE D’INNOCENZIO, AP Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, denied a report Friday that it had pressured employees to vote against Democrats in November because of worries that a bill the party supports would make it easier for workers to unionize.

Tim Newman, Campaigns Assistant, International Labor Rights Forum Here at ILRF, one of our major campaign areas is protecting workers' internationally recognized right to organize. We support workers in countries like Colombia and Philippines where there are regular attacks on the fundamental right of workers to join unions and often these attacks involve violence against union leaders.

So I get home from supporting a strike (pictured) to read that New Labour even in its death throes is holding out against workers' right to strike. Existing law makes us jump through hoop after hoop to even hold a legal strike, while employers have every right they need to undermine workers' action.

Had to say something, so I was reading through the NY Times article about how the AFL-CIO has launched a Veterans Vs. McCain website and when readin the comments I just had to chime in, from the NY Times, "Union Veterans’ Group Starts Ad Campaign Against McCain" (7/11/08): Wow, reading through I can

Firstly, Labor Day 2008 in New York, trying to promote the Employee Free Choice Act Myself, Richard from Union Review and Kirsten from Uniongal, the Women, Unions and Our Stories blog, are looking for sponsors to get some Employee Free Choice Act shirts, with our sites listed as supporters, to be