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• National Right to Work Committee

  
  THE PATRIOT — Authority: 123
  National Right to Work Committee.Posted in big labor unions, GOVERNMENT CONTROLED MEDIA, HANDOUT, ILLINOIS SYNDICATE, SOCIALSIM
  13 hours ago

• Live Coverage of ‘Open for Questions’

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 656
      Seth Michaels is posting live from Washington, D.C. In a live Web chat from the AFL-CIO starting at 4 p.m. EST, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will answer questions on the jobs crisis that you submitted and voted on. Watch it live here , and we’ll cover the conversation on Twitter. Click here ...
  22 hours ago

• NY Times Front Page: Poll Reveals Trauma of Joblessness in U.S.

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 579
  More than half of the nation’s unemployed workers have borrowed money from friends or relatives since losing their jobs. An equal number have cut back on doctor visits or medical treatments because they are out of work. Almost half have suffered from depression or anxiety. About 4 in 10 parents have noticed ...
  22 hours ago

• Trumka: Live Webcast on Jobs Crisis Today

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 656
        At 4 p.m. EST today, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will host a live conversation and answer your questions about the jobs crisis and the way forward. More than 5,500 people have voted already on more than 150 questions working people submitted for Trumka, on subjects like green jobs, training, ...
  1 day ago

• Der Spiegel: An Interview with US Economic Recovery Advisory Board Chair Paul Volcker

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 579
  SPIEGEL: But even though there are still more people being fired than hired, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke is saying that the recession is technically over. Do you agree with him? Volcker: You know, people get very technical about these things. We had a quarter of increased growth but I dont think ...
  1 day ago

• Union Thugs Block Blood Delivery At Local Red Cross

  
  THE HOT JOINTS — Authority: 139
  Employees of the American Red Cross in Philadelphia went on strike last Thursday to protest wages. Union thugs even went so far as to block a blood shipment from reaching its destination to save lives. The Teamsters Union along with SEIU (Obama’s favorite union) blocked at least one delivery during the day and ...
  1 day ago

• Judge Blocks ACORN Funding Ban

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 656
      AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker         A federal judge has blocked U.S. officials from enforcing a funding ban on the community action group ACORN , the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. At the same time, an independent investigation shows the ...
  1 day ago

• This week’s Economist: America’s best job creators are being hit by a credit crunch

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 579
  It Is basically a second stimulus, though no one wants to call it that. On December 8th President Barack Obama announced a set of proposals to address unemployment and made it clear that he wanted to use some of the unspent TARP funds (money set aside to support failing banks) to help pay for them. No precise figure ...
  2 days ago

• This Morning’s ‘Meet the Press’ transcript for the Discussion on the Economy

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 579
  MR. GREGORY: Governor Romney, why is it that companies are not investing, that theyre not hiring? FMR. GOV. MITT ROMNEY (R-MA): Well, companies are going to hire if theres additional purchases that require them to, to staff up and to beef up and to start their production lines. People have to be buying things. ...
  3 days ago

• Worker Poverty in Sweat Shopping

  
  Wade Rathke: Chief Organizer Blog — Authority: 422
  New Orleans               An article by Ken Silverstein in Harper’s Magazine in the January 2010 issue labeled a “letter from Cambodia” and entitled “Shopping for Sweat:  The Human Cost of a Two-Dollar T-shirt” caught by eye immediately because of the controversy around Jeff Ballinger’s ...
  3 days ago

• Blago lawyers seek FBI interview notes from Obama, Stern, Balanoff interviews

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 585
  Illinois Democrats have a lot to worry about in 2010. The Rod Blagojevich corruption trial is scheduled to begin in June and will serve as a daily reminder of Democratic sleaze. But it wont be just about Blago. For instance, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting this morning that the attorneys for the hair-brained ...
  3 days ago

• Get Last-Minute Gifts at The Union Shop Online™

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 656
  There are only 12 shopping days left before Christmas and if you’re still looking for that special gift and want to support America’s workers at the same time, check out AFL-CIO’s  The Union Shop Online TM for your one-stop holiday shopping. There’s a great selection of holiday cards and hundreds of ...
  4 days ago

• Got a Question on the Jobs Crisis? Ask Richard Trumka

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 656
        Per-plexd wants to know : What ever happened to those infrastructure jobs? Not the supposedly shovel-ready ones but the long-term ones. The ones that were going to help rebuild our roads, bridges, storm and sewages water systems ad nausem? You know, WPA, CCC, TVA style. Tim in Sacramento says , ...
  5 days ago

• First Foreign Labor Union Started In Korea

  
  ROK Drop — Authority: 509
  It will be interesting if this union will do any good in regards to stopping the shady practices of hagwon owners in Korea: A group of foreign nationals working in Korea has formed a labor union, the law firm representing them said Tuesday, in a first for the country, according to Yonhap news.Five foreign lecturers ...
  5 days ago

• Bill Would Create Agency to Protect Consumers from Big Banks

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 656
  The global financial meltdown demonstrated how vulnerable workers and consumers are to abuses in consumer lending practices and Wall Street’s recklessness. A package of reforms now on the House floor would help protect Americans from a laundry list of risky Wall Street practices from predatory lending to unregulated ...
  5 days ago

• Shuler: Unions Need Young Workers—and Young Workers Need Unions

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 656
        AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler spoke at the winter conference of Union Plus , where she focused on the special challenges faced by young workers who are at risk of becoming the first generation to be worse off than their parents. Shuler’s speech was webcast live, and you can watch her ...
  5 days ago

• Got a Question on the Jobs Crisis? Ask Richard Trumka

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 717
        Per-plexd wants to know : What ever happened to those infrastructure jobs? Not the supposedly shovel-ready ones but the long-term ones. The ones that were going to help rebuild our roads, bridges, storm and sewages water systems ad nausem? You know, WPA, CCC, TVA style. Tim in Sacramento says , ...
  5 days ago

• Agricultural groups call proposed financial tax counterproductive

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 579
  Farmers and ranchers use futures contracts as a hedge against price fluctuations, as do elevators that buy and sell grain. Bethany Shively, spokeswoman for the National Cattlemens Beef Association, said such a tax would impact a producers effort to stay in business by buying and selling futures. "Any additional ...
  5 days ago

• AFT’s Randi Weingarten: Schools, Unions Best Agents for ‘Social Justice’

  
  Big Government — Authority: 820
  AFT President Randi Weingarten may have inadvertantly put her finger on one of the major problems with public education today. During an Oct. 28  forum at the Center for American Progress, Weingarten told the assembled panel that teachers unions, along with the general labor movement and the nation’s public ...
  6 days ago

• Jobless Back in Wrong Direction

  
  24/7 Wall St. — Authority: 709
  The Labor Department is out with its weekly jobless claims data and again we have a reading south of 500,000.  The claims rose 17,000 to 474,000 versus a Bloomberg target of 460,000.  That reverses some of the improvements of the last two weeks even if it is under the 500,000 mark.The big change was in [...] [[ ...
  6 days ago

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