Organized Labor

WATCH: New Uniforms Sicken Flight Attendants?

Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Flight Attendant Unions, Labor, Video, Alaska Flight Attendants, Alaska Flight Attendants Made Sick, Uniforms Make Flight Attendants Sick, Organized Labor, Airlines, Unions, Alaska Airlines, Travel News

A group of Alaska Airlines flight attendants says their new uniforms are literally making them sick. In a letter to the airline president last mont...

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Zach Carter

Obama's New JOBS Act Friends Leave Longtime Democratic Ally Furious

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 04.05.2012

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will sign the JOBS Act into law Thursday, clinching a rare and hard-fought bipartisan victory for his presidency....

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Three Ways Labor Can Fight Back

David Macaray | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Labor, Organized Labor, Labor Unions, Tea Party, Middle Class, Politics News
David Macaray

It's time for organized labor to demonstrate not how reasonable they are, but how mean they can be. It's time for an all-out fight.

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Teamsters Get A New Face

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: The Teamsters Reality Show, A&e, Reality TV, Jimmy Hoffa, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, The Teamsters, Mark Wahlberg the Teamsters, Mark Wahlberg, Organized Labor, Unions, Business News

Forget Jimmy Hoffa, the Teamsters Union is getting a far more telegenic representative. Oscar-nominated actor Mark Wahlberg is lending his name to a n...

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Lila Shapiro

Union Blasts Target Closure

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: Jobs Crisis, New York Organized Labor, United Food and Commercial Workers, Wages, Jobless Crisis, Target, Jobs, Ufcw, New York, Labor, New York Unions, Business News, Organized Labor, Unions Target Vote, Unions, Business News

Back in June when workers at a Target store just outside New York City were about to vote on whether to unionize, employees received an ominous pamphl...

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Does Labor Have Any Real Friends?

David Macaray | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Labor Movement, Organized Labor, Union Labor, Labor Unions, Unions, Working Class, Politics News
David Macaray

When it comes to the down-and-dirty battles necessary to get the job done, working people realize that no one can be relied upon except other working people, and the unions that represent them.

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Jerry Brown Deals Away Trouble on the Left

William Bradley | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Organized Labor, California, Business, California Budget Crisis, Jerry Brown, Occupy Wall Street, Clint Eastwood, San Francisco News, Los Angeles News, Governor Jerry Brown, Politics News
William Bradley

Governor Jerry Brown has dealt away some potential problems on the left to strengthen his chances of passing a revenue initiative in November.

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Lila Shapiro

AFL-CIO's Obama Endorsement Brings More Bodies And New Risks

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Union Spending, Jobs, Obama, General Election, Organized Labor, Afl Cio, Presidential Election, Labor Unions, Richard Trumka, Business News

On Tuesday, the AFL-CIO started off its campaign season in a familiar way: endorsing the Democratic candidate Barack Obama. What's shifting, though, i...

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They're Forming A Union Where?

Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Goldman Sachs Workers Japan, Goldman Sachs, Video, Labor-News, Goldman Sachs Workers, Business News, Organized Labor, Unions, Big Banks, Bank Unions, Business News

Wall Street workers and union hands may seem like total opposites, but employees at an iconic investment bank are countering those preconceived notion...

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Oil Giant Reaches Tentative Deal With Union

AP | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: United Steel Workers Union, Video, Shell United Steelworkers Deal, Oil Giants, Labor-News, Business News, Organized Labor, Unions, Labor Unions, Shell Oil, Business News

DALLAS -- The United Steelworkers union and Shell Oil have as announced a tentative deal on a new three-year contract covering Shell refinery workers ...

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Union Membership Grew Slightly Last Year, After Years Of Decline

AP | By SAM HANANEL | Posted 01.28.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Union membership grew slightly last year, giving labor leaders hope that a period of steep declines has finally bottomed out. The numbe...

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Made in the USA: It's More Complex Than You Think

Adam Clampitt | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Politics, Infrastructure, Education, Apple Iphone, Apple, Economy, Free Trade, Manufacturing, Jobs, Globalization, Organized Labor, Manufacturing Jobs, DC News
Adam Clampitt

If America's leaders want to see us regain our manufacturing dominance, the answer is not as easy as "right-to-work" laws, a changing tax code, or currency manipulation.

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Janell Ross

Office Cleaners, Building Owners Get To Yes

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Building-Cleaners, Building Owners, Labor, Strike, Labor-Contract, SEIU Strike, Local 32BJ, Seiu, Organized Labor, Labor Unions, Office Cleaners, Unions, New York, Business News

New York office cleaners and building owners reached a tentative four-year labor agreement late Friday, averting a potential New Year's Day strike. ...

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Janell Ross

New York Building Cleaner Strike Could Have National Implications

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 12.30.2011

Read More: Strike, Building Cleaners, Labor History, Wages, Seiu, Justice for Janitors, Contract Negotiations, Organized Labor, Unions, Business News

As the New Year's Eve contract deadline looms for office cleaners who attend to some of New York City's most iconic buildings and the companies that o...

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WATCH: Some Iberia Flights Canceled In Pilot Strike

AP | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Spanish Airline, Airline Strikes, Spain Travel, Pilot Strikes, Labor Actions, Iberia, Spanish Airline Strike, Organized Labor, Iberia Airlines, Europe Travel, Ap, Video, Travel News

MADRID (AP) — Spanish airline Iberia canceled more than a third of its flights Thursday due to a strike by pilots fearing job losses when company pl...

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Janell Ross

N.Y. Building Cleaners Poised to Strike

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: SEIU 32BJ, Strike, Pay, Low-Wage Workers, Empire State Building, Wages, Seiu, Rockefeller Center, Organized Labor, Time Warner Building, New York, Business News

Workers who clean more than 1,500 buildings in New York -- including iconic facilities such as the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center and the T...

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Lila Shapiro

Ex-Walmart Associate To 'Occupy' Protesters: Take On 'The Face Of The 1 Percent'

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 01.11.2012

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NEW YORK -- On Friday afternoon in Zuccotti Park, Sandy Carpenter, a former Walmart 'associate,' held a brief teach-in about her former employer -- "t...

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Unity Is Strength for Progressives

Amy B. Dean | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Afl-Cio, Progressive Movement, Organized Labor, Labor Movement, Labor Unions, Solidarity, Occupy Wall Street, Politics News
Amy B. Dean

Business and liberal elites have long invested in developing collaborative leadership. In Occupy Wall Street and beyond, grassroots progressives are now getting into the game of working together.

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Labor Board Accuses Target Of Threatening Workers Before Union Vote

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 01.02.2012

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More evidence has come to light indicating that Target might have threatened to close one its New York stores if workers decided to unionize, accordin...

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Labor Union Targets Vulnerable Republicans In Ads

The Huffington Post | Jordan Howard | Posted 12.13.2011

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WASHINGTON -- One of the nation's largest labor unions, the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, will begin the airing an ad...

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UAW Rejects Deal With Defense Contracter For Second Time

Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Business News, Uaw Oshkosh Contract, Uaw, Labor, Video, Organized Labor, Labor Unions, United Auto Workers, Oshkosh Truck Corp, Business News

OSHKOSH, Wisconsin (Reuters) - Workers at defense contractor Oshkosh Corp turned down a new five-year contract offer from the company for a second...

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Labor's Success Fuels Decline

Al Checchi | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Organized Labor, Labor Movement, The Change Maker, Democratic Party, Employee Free Choice Act, Labor Unions, Al Checchi, Politics News
Al Checchi

In a "what have you done for me lately" world, there is little that labor can now offer and it is increasingly difficult to envision future circumstances for reversing its sagging political and economic fortunes.

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Are You Kidding? Estonia Is Ahead of Us?

David Macaray | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Worker Protecrtion, Labor, Labor Unions, Organized Labor, Workers Rights Rankings, Labor Rankings, Workers Rights, Politics News
David Macaray

Instead of seeing ourselves, collectively, as a "country" -- a society, a culture, a national community -- we now see ourselves as an economic arena where there are only winners and losers.

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SoCal Grocery Workers To Vote On Strike-Averting Deal

Posted 11.24.2011

Read More: Business News, Grocery Workers Strike, Labor, Organized Labor, Union Rank and File, Labor Unions, Southern California Grocery Workers, Business News

The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Southern California shoppers should soon learn whether their grocery aisles will remain open as another wave o...

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7 Reasons You Should Join a Union

David Macaray | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Workforce, Union Membership, Union Benefits, Labor, Labor Unions, Organized Labor, Unions, Business News
David Macaray

Generally speaking, union jobs pay significantly more than non-union jobs. You want to be part of the American middle-class? Join a union.

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