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2/29/2008 7:01:47 PM
A few days ago, the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) released a fascinating report that confirms a lot of what we've been seeing in our American Dream Surveys -- namely, that disturbingly large numbers of working men and...
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2/26/2008 9:44:51 PM
The UFCW, along with leading labor and civil rights specialists held the first in a series of nationwide hearings in Washington, D.C. on Monday to examine the enforcement tactics used by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE): At...
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2/21/2008 10:01:47 PM
In a few minutes, we will make the official announcement to the media that Change to Win is endorsing Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States. Here are some excerpts from the remarks that Change to Win...
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2/20/2008 10:30:36 PM
On Friday, February 8, the Imperial Sugar processing plant in Port Wentworth, Georgia, exploded. The explosion killed at least eight workers and sent dozens more to the hospital. It took firefighters a week to put out the fire. What caused...
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2/20/2008 2:27:27 AM
Remember when I told you last week that the Teamsters were going to be rallying in San Francisco last week as part of their campaign to Fire Mary Peters? Well, the rally was a big success. Nearly 600 people turned...
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2/14/2008 10:31:11 PM
Anyone following the op-ed pages of the New York Times over the last few days would have been treated to two diametrically opposed perspectives on the state of the average American worker's finances. For the sake of convenience, let's...
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2/13/2008 11:03:19 PM
The House of Representatives' Committee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law is hearing testimony right now on misconduct by ICE -- the border security agency whose sweeps through meatpacking plants last year ended up infringing the...
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2/13/2008 8:21:19 PM
If you had to guess what each of the dots on the map above represented, what would you guess? Here's the answer: each dot represents a worker who was killed on the job in 2007. And here's the even...
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2/12/2008 10:30:17 PM
The always-excellent American Rights at Work has launched a new site today titled "Shame on Elaine" that exposes the questionable leadership of Elaine Chao, George Bush's Secretary of Labor: Have you ever wondered who Elaine Chao is? As the...
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2/14/2008 7:48:50 PM
We told you back in September about a task force set up by New York Governor Eliot Spitzer to investigate "misclassification" -- the scam where employers weasel out of paying for their workers' health care and benefits by claiming...
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2/11/2008 9:05:52 PM
A group of Cintas employees in Montreal have become the first ever Cintas workers to successfully join together in a union: After years of enduring harsh working conditions for low pay, Cintas employees in Montreal have become the first in...
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2/11/2008 8:32:53 PM
We've probably all heard somebody assert at some point that there's a tradeoff between economic prosperity and environmental friendliness. But why should that have to be? Refitting the American economy to run "green" will be an enormous task --...
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2/11/2008 7:33:50 PM
If you're in the Bay Area and you want to protest Transportation Secretary Mary Peters' disregard for the law and for the safety of American motorists, here's your chance! Tomorrow morning, the Teamsters will be holding a rally outside the...
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2/7/2008 10:37:45 PM
Well, the Senate voted last night on the improved stimulus package I've been posting about, and thanks to obstructionist Republican senators who threatened to filibuster (which meant the bill needed a 60-vote supermajority to pass) it failed by a single...
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2/7/2008 6:06:11 PM
I've blogged before in this space about the continual flailing of Circuit City ever since they decided last spring to axe 3,400 of their most productive workers and replace them with cheaper labor in a boneheaded cost-cutting maneuver. Now...