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Take Action to Support Bakery Workers at Stella D'oro!

Stewart Acuff | Posted 06.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Freedom to Form Unions, Afl-Cio, Workers, Employee Free Choice Act, Stewart Acuff, Bctgm, Business News
Stewart Acuff

The Stella D'oro story sums it up: Corporate mismanagement, the destruction of an iconic brand and an attempt to destroy the livelihoods of modest working families.

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Obama Delays Panama Trade Deal Under Pressure From Unions

Bloomberg | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senate Finance Committee, Trade, Panama, President Obama, Max Baucus, Afl-Cio, Panama-Us-Trade, Everett Eissenstat, Politics News

U.S. officials said they will delay seeking congressional approval for a pending free-trade deal with Panama until President Barack Obama offers a new...

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Karl Rove: Let's Debate Employee Free Choice

Stewart Acuff | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Afl-Cio, Employee Free Choice Act, Stewart Acuff, Efca, Karl Rove, Karl Rove EFCA, Politics News
Stewart Acuff

Karl Rove, I challenge you to debate the Employee Free Choice Act. You can pick the time and place, but you cannot limit the audience or exclude the media.

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Corporations Now Widely Using Wal-Mart Tactics, New Report on Unionbusting Finds

Art Levine | Posted 06.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Arlen Specter, Afl-Cio, Chamber of Commerce, Kate Bronfenbrenner, Employee Free Choice Act, Wal-Mart, Business News
Art Levine

What distinguishes the current organizing climate from previous decades of employer opposition to unions?

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Dick Cheney Battles Clergy Over Employee Free Choice Act

Art Levine | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kim Bobo, Big Business, Jim Wallis, Employee Free Choice Act, Clergy, Afl-Cio, Chamber of Commerce, Pope, Seiu, Politics News
Art Levine

Dick Cheney's remarks Tuesday attacking the Employee Free Choice Act aired on the same day as a new coalition of religious leaders pressed the case for the pro-worker legislation.

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Real Movement for Change

Stewart Acuff | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Afl-Cio, Employee Free Choice Act, Barack Obama, Politics News
Stewart Acuff

The most important and useful thing Democrats can do is to free American workers to act on their own behalf.

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Specter Faces Price of Betrayal: Angry Dems, Workers, Primary Challenge

Art Levine | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, Netroots, Afl-Cio, Obama, Employee Free Choice Act, Politics News
Art Levine

Specter now stands alone. Stripped of his rank by Democrats. Scorned by Republicans. Specter's flash of strength has turned to weakness.

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Feinstein, Specter Compromises Pave the Way for Passage of Employee Free Choice Act

Jane Hamsher | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mark Udall, Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, Diane Feinstein, Ben Nelson George McGovern, Mark Pryor, Rick Berman, Tom Harkin, Penny Pritzger, Afl-Cio, Michael Bennet, Jim Webb, Astroturf, Politics News
Jane Hamsher

With 900,000 union members in the state of Pennsylvania, the Arlen Specter firewall appears to be crumbling.

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Which Side Are You on Specter?

Stewart Acuff | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, Afl-Cio, Stewart Acuff, Thomas Frank, Labor Movement, Employee Free Choice Act, Politics News
Stewart Acuff

Labor is re-energized by Specter's decision. Grassroots union activity -- already at a fever pitch -- is escalating even more.

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Sam Stein

Veterans Groups Go To Bat For EFCA

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Votevets, Veterans Council, Afl-Cio, Employee Free Choice Act, Efca, Card Check, Politics News

Adding a new dimension to the debate over the Employee Free Choice Act, a host of veterans groups is launching a new effort to help pass the union-bac...

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Local Media Challenged DC Pundits' Anti-Union Spin -- And Pushed Specter

Art Levine | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, Susan Collins, Afl-Cio, Maine, Employee Free Choice Act, Olympia Snowe, Politics News
Art Levine

The conventional wisdom among members of the Washington punditocracy is that the EFCA is essentially dead or doomed, in part because of the defections of moderate Senators Specter and Lincoln.

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Learning From History On Health Care Reform

Sahil Kapur | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Health Care for America Now, Liberals, Harry Truman, Progressives, Obama Administration, Afl-Cio, Medicaid, Reagan Era, Single Payer Health Care, Obama Health Care, Barack Obama, Universal Health Care, Conservatives, Clinton Health Care Plan, Red Scare, Hillary Clinton, Health Care Reform, Medicare, Aarp, Democrat Party, Republican Party, Politics News
Sahil Kapur

The most transformative health care overhauls that succeeded in the last century employed the same strategy: build on what we've got and let the changes happen organically.

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Pass the Employee Free Choice Act

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Employee Free Choice Act, International Monetary Fund, Afl-Cio, Corporate Power, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Iraq War, World Trade Organization, Wall Street, Nafta, Colombia, Vietnam War, John Sweeney, Iraq, Saul Alinsky, Iraq Timetable, Politics News
Robert Naiman

Passage of the Employee Free Choice Act is easy to justify on the basis of guaranteeing the basic human rights of working Americans.

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With Friends Like These...Robert Reich's "Mistakes" on Employee Free Choice Act

Art Levine | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Afl-Cio, Robert Reich, Unions, Employee Free Choice Act, Politics News
Art Levine

EFCA backers were no doubt thrilled to hear the only liberal on CNBC mimic conservative falsehoods on employee free choice.

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Faux-Populist "Tea Parties" Ignore Tax Breaks for Overpaid CEOs

Art Levine | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Financial Crisis, Tax Haven, Afl-Cio, CEO Pay, Tea Party, Paywatch, Tea Bagging, Tampa-Florida, Cayman Islands, Bank of America, Politics News
Art Levine

There's a useful way to channel anger over corporate pay abuses and tax ripoffs that does far more than venting mindless anti-Obama, anti-tax rage at "tea party" rallies.

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As 'Secret Ballot' Myth Sputters, Chamber Launches New Anti-Union Attack Line

Art Levine | Posted 05.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Banks, Financial Crisis, Afl-Cio, Employee Free Choice Act, Efca, Chamber of Commerce, Unions, Politics News
Art Levine

It's still an open question if the business community will succeed in their drive to spread misinformation about arbitration with claims that the bill will take away the secret ballot.

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Ryan Grim

AFL-CIO Memo Disses Reunification Reports

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Afl-Cio, John Sweeney, Labor Unions, Politics News

The AFL-CIO is pushing back hard against reports that a new union federation could pave the way to the reunification of the labor movement. Washingt...

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Card Check Dilemma: How Can Well-Meaning Americans Be So Far Apart?

Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Arlen Specter, Secret Ballot, Economic Crisis, Employee Free Choice Act, Gary Shapiro, Government Arbitration, Cloture Vote, Unionization, Afl-Cio, Technology Industry, Card Check, Blanche Lincoln, Private Ballot, Senator Lincoln, Union Intimidation, Senator Specter, Cea, Unions, Consumer Electronics Association, Unions and Business, Detroit, Business News
Gary Shapiro

I am very hopeful that card check is dead for this Congress. The issue is divisive, harmful, and not a good use of time by anyone.

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The Ongoing Struggle for Workers' Rights

Stewart Acuff | Posted 05.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Afl-Cio, Stewart Acuff, Labor Movement, Martin Luther King, Employee Free Choice Act, Unions, Politics News
Stewart Acuff

For workers in the private sector it is harder to form a union and engage in collective bargaining today than it was in 1968.

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Unions, Civil Rights Groups Launch Ground War For Pro-Worker Bill Pundits Declared Dead

Art Levine | Posted 05.04.2009 | Home

Read More: Economic Recovery, Blanche Lincoln, Afl-Cio, Chamber of Commerce, African-Americans, Naacp, Employee Free Choice Act, Home News
Art Levine

While some Washington pundits have declared the Employee Free Choice Act essentially dead because Republican Senator Arlen Sp...

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New Franken Ruling, Civil Rights Coalition Backing Boosts Pro-Union Bill

Art Levine | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Afl-Cio, Specter, Senate, Civil Rights, Employee Free Choice Act, Seiu, Pryor, Coleman Court, Coleman, Norm Coleman Al Franken, Norm Coleman Supreme Court, Norm Coleman, Al Franken, Franken Coleman, Coleman Absentee Ballots, Politics News
Art Levine

Tuesday's court decision favoring Al Franken in the disputed Minnesota Senate race also serves as a boon to the ongoing fight over the Employee Free Choice Act.

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Sam Stein

Norquist: Specter's EFCA Opposition A Major Step To Republican Resurrection

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Free Choice, Republican Resurection, Arlen Specter, Specter Cloture, Grover Norquist, Afl-Cio, Labor Law, Efca, Employee, Richard Trumka, Specter Employee Free Chioce Act, Politics News

Sen. Arlen Specter's early opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act could serve as an influential pivot point by which Republicans can reclaim elect...

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Sam Stein

AFL-CIO May Work Against Specter In Republican Primary

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, Employee Free Chioce Act, Karen Ackerman, Obama Employee Free Choice Act, Afl-Cio, Specter Employee Free Choice Act, Afl Cio Pennsylvania, Ackerman Afl-Cio, Afl Cio, Specter Toomey, Pennsylvania Primary, Specter Primary, Primary Eleciton, Republicans, Politics News

One of the highest-ranking political operatives in the labor movement offered a none-too-subtle electoral threat to Sen. Arlen Specter on Wednesday, s...

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Grassroots Support for the Employee Free Choice Act Grows

Stewart Acuff | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Afl-Cio, Stewart Acuff, Employee Free Choice Act, Politics News
Stewart Acuff

Now that the Employee Free Choice Act has been introduced in the U.S. House and Senate, organized labor's multi-state grassroots campaign is running at full throttle.

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