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Organized labor’s strength has been waning for the past three decades under both Republican and Democratic administrations. But after eight especially difficult years under George W. Bush, the labor movement is preparing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to help elect Barack Obama.

Here is information I received and I’m forwarding it along to BNG: Please come to the benefit for Proposition K on the November ballot (decriminalize sex work).  This is a matter of worker’s rights.    Lined up against us is the Republican Party and Pacific Gas and Electric (your utility payments at work thanks to the Public Utilities Commission and Gavin!).

In July in Las Vegas, the United Steelworkers and the UK-based Unite the Union agreed to form the Workers Uniting, the first global union. There have been international and regional union federations before. In November 2006 the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and the World Confederation of Labour (WCL) merged to form the International Trade Union Confederation.

Labor Day was the perfect day for the grand opening of Arizona's first worker rights center. What's a worker rights center, you ask? The Interfaith Worker Justice AZ Worker Rights Center is a place where anyone who gets paid for his or her labor can come to learn his or her rights under AZ law, and find out how to seek remedies when those rights are violated.

Posted on behalf of Maxine Doogan,  Please direct *all* questions and correspondence to persons and organizations reference below. Dear _____________, Your help is needed to pass Proposition K, a groundbreaking San Francisco ballot measure that will increase worker and public safety by decriminalizing prostitution.

Your daily dose of civil rights and related newsBacklash over the Postville raid may be prompting the government to change its immigration enforcement tactics somewhat.Orange County Register: The diversity given by immigration is a source of strength, not weakness, to our nation.Same-sex marriage: good for the economy.

From my earlier posts about the possible use of Guardianship and the interrelation with powers under the  Mental Capacity Act in the context of a current decision that needs to be made at work, it seemed that in general, the Mental Capacity Act offers a similar authority to the Mental Health Act.

Today is Labor Day in the US and Canada (Labour Day), a day set aside to celebrate the social and economic achievements of workers (and of course to drink beer and celebrate!). But why do we really need a “day off” to celebrate working?

I’m going to catch flack for this post.  I don’t care.  Maybe it will be deleted as divisive?  This totally sucks.  The sudden rise in the last few months in this movement of activist pissing contests is so screwed up.  This movement needs everyone.  It is far too small and too new a movement to afford

I’m sorry, but what a crock. As the owner of the top website on the topic of Nevada’s Legal Brothels, and as a long time customer, a consultant, and personal friend to many of Nevada’s working ladies and brothel owners, I’d just like to set the record straight here.