Small Biz Group Says Health Care Reform Could Save Them $855 Billion
Health care reform that requires employers to provide health care coverage for workers or pay into a fund—known as pay or play—could save small businesses as much as $855 billion during the next few...
View ArticleCorporate Hypocrisy on Bargaining Highlights Need for Employee Free Choice
The misleading attacks by Big Business on the Employee Free Choice Act now are aimed at the provision that would guarantee that workers can get a fair first contract. Their scare tactics are not only...
View ArticleG8 Union Leaders Issue Urgent Call to Tackle Jobs Crisis
The global union movement is issuing an urgent call for the leaders of the Group of Eight nations to tackle the deepening jobs crisis at their summit meeting in L’Aquila, Italy, next month. The leaders...
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Congress Hears Demands for Health Care Reform in Town Hall Meetings
Members of Congress met in town hall sessions Thursday with constituents who were on Capitol Hill to rally and demand health care reform. Read dispatches from some of the meetings. —————– Ohio Weighs...
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Business Professors: Employee Free Choice Act Good for the Economy
Two top business experts have taken to the pages of Business Week to make the case for the Employee Free Choice Act. Paul Adler, a professor at the Marshall School of Business at the University of...
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Senate Passes Jobs Bill, Obama Signature Next
The U.S. Senate today passed a jobs bill that AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka calls a ”good start” in helping the nation’s workers climb out of the 11-million-deep jobs hole dug by the Wall Street...
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G-20 Labor Leaders Meet at AFL-CIO for Labor Summit
When the world’s banks were going under, governments jumped to their aid. Now with record numbers of people out of work, it’s past time for governments to put working people first, or the fledgling...
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Workers Mobilizing to Get Fair Pay for Music Artists
For the past 80 years, radio stations have used the publicly owned airwaves to make billions of dollars playing music without paying anything to the artists who created it. AFL-CIO President Richard...
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290,000 Jobs Created in April, Jobless Rate Worsens to 9.9 Percent
Some 290,000 jobs were created in April, the fourth straight month in more than year the nation has seen gains in employment. Yet the unemployment rate worsened to 9.9 percent from 9.7 percent in...
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