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Workers Win Voice with AFL-CIO Unions
By Mike Hall AFL-CIO Senior Writer Emergency medical workers, massage therapists, bus mechanics and home health care workers are among the latest workers to choose a voice on the job with AFL-CIO...
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Pinching Pensions to Keep Wall Street Fat and Happy
By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Author The debate over public pensions shows clearly the contempt that the elites have for ordinary workers. While elites routinely...
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Labor Day Message from U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez
By Thomas Perez U.S. Labor Secretary Brother and Sisters – From the U.S. Department of Labor, where I proudly work in a building named for my great predecessor Frances Perkins, let me wish all of my...
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Alt-Labor Day, 2013
By Amy B. Dean Fellow, The Century Foundation Fast food workers in dozens of cities staged a national day of strikes last Thursday, August 29. The action sought to galvanize public support for a living...
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Delegates Commit AFL-CIO to Grow Labor Movement Through Diversity, Inclusion
By Mike Hall AFL-CIO Senior WriterOn the heels of last week’s groundbreaking young worker and diversity conference, delegates to the AFL-CIO 2013 Convention reaffirmed the federation’s commitment to...
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In Los Angeles, Labor Redefines Itself
By Michael Winship Senior Writer of Moyers & Company “It’s time to turn America right side up!” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka exhorted those in attendance at the labor alliance’s quadrennial...
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AFL-CIO Forges National Partnership with United Students Against Sweatshops
Kenneth Quinnell AFL-CIO In the first of many concrete moves after the AFL-CIO passed a resolution at its national convention to create new and lasting community partnerships to open and broaden the...
View ArticleThank Labor for Its Role in the Minimum Wage
In his State of the Union message on February 12th 2013, President Obama proposed raising the Federal minimum hourly wage to $9.00 an hour, in order to allow those working full-time to live above the...
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A Coordinated Attack on American Wages and Labor Standards In States
By Dave Johnson Fellow, Campaign for America's Future The Economic Policy Institute released a report today titled, The Legislative Attack on American Wages and Labor Standards, 2011–2012. The report...
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