Workers Rights

Weekly Audit: EFCA Vital for Recovery Economy NewsLadder

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Economic Recovery, General Motors, Bankruptcy, Employee Free Choice Act, Stimulus Plan NewsLadder, Labor Laws, Worker Exploitation, Bailouts, Obama Administration, Newsladder, Wall Street, Unions, Economy NewsLadder, Recession, Workers Rights, Politics News

by Zach Carter, Media Consortium MediaWire Blogger It's official: The U.S. economy has been in a recession for a year and a half and many of the ec...

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Corruption Is Dangerous to Your Health

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 05.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Paid Sick Leave, Corrupt Congress, Bank Lobby, Workers, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Republicans, Workers Rights, Politics News

In area after area, Americans are suffering from the accumulated corruptions of our moneyed politics.

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Why Immigrant Workers Will Fill the Streets This May Day

Crossover Dreams | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Reform, Immigration, Migration, May Day, Undocumented Immigrants, Workers Rights, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Politics News

By David Bacon Oakland, CA -- In a little less than a month, hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of people will fill the streets in city af...

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What Your Boss Won't Tell You

Bruce Raynor | Posted 03.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Labor, Workers, Employee Free Choice Act, Efca, Democracy, Chamber of Commerce, Labor Unions, Ceos, Workers Rights, Politics News

If we make it easier to form a union, we can rebuild our economy from the bottom up. We can stem the tide of workers losing their jobs, their health care, and their retirement benefits.

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President Obama Signs Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, But Challenges Remain

Carey Alexander | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, 111th Congress, Women's Rights, S. 181, Legislation, Civil Rights, President Obama, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Congress, Equal Pay for Equal Work, Constitution, Lilly Ledbetter, National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights, Patricia Garrett, Worker's Rights, Equal Pay, Politics News

Though the Act is undeniably a tremendous victory for women and workers, it's far too soon to rejoice.

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Schools Score Points by Standing Up for Workers

David Bonior | Posted 02.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Russell, Georgetown Basketball, Duke Basketball, Athletes, Russel Athletics, Georgetown University, Honduras, Workers Rights, Business News

Perennial basketball contenders Duke and Georgetown showed that, with some exercise of moral leadership, those in the business of sports also have the power to advance human rights.

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Bush's Midnight Regulations Value Profits More Than People

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 12.29.2008 | Business

Read More: U.S. Labor Department, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Public Citizen, Greenhouse Gas, George W. Bush, Regulation, National Marine Fisheries Service, Beryllium, Afl-Cio, Barack Obama, Clean Air Act, Midnight Regulations, Charlie Gibson, Silica, Gao, Endangered Species, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, ABC News, President Bush, Government Accountability Office, Worker Exposure to Toxic Materials, Labor Regulations, Worker Safety, Osha, Labor Rights, Workers' Rights, Truck Driving Regulations, Business News

The legacy of George W. Bush's final days in office will be degradation of the environment, endangered species and the safety of working people.

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The Big Box Paradox: Should We Shop At Wal-Mart?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 12.26.2008 | Green

Read More: Workers' Rights, Walmart, Elanor Starmer, Industrial Organic, Wal-Mart, Organic, Ethicurean, Big Box Stores, Sustainability, Green News

Now that Wal-Mart has jumped on the organic bandwagon, it's making organic products available to folks who lack the access or means to shop at farmers' markets or, say, Whole Foods.

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Chicago Sit-In Workers Hope To Inspire Labor Movement

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 12.11.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Labor, Chicago Factory Sit-In, Chciago Factory Protest, Chicago Workers, Chicago Workers Protest, Labor Movement, Republic, Republic Windows and Doors Chicago, Workers Rights, Chicago News

CHICAGO — They've taken their sleeping bags and pillows back home and hauled away their protest placards after ending a nearly weeklong sit-in a...

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Truck the GAP: Jeff the Trucker is a Better Symbol of America's Workers

Peter Dreier | Posted 10.31.2008 | Home

Read More: Strike, Unions, Oak Harbor Freight, Employee Free Choice Act, The Gap, Workers Rights, Home News

Forget Joe the Plumber. One of America's real working class heroes is Jeff the truck driver. Jeff Wallace, 43, has been on the picket lines for si...

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The War on Labor Day

Elana Levin | Posted 09.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Middle-Class Squeeze, Labor, Take Back Labor Day, Employee Free Choice Act, Labor Day, Corporations, Trade, Middle Class, Corporate Power, Unions, Nafta, Workers Rights, Politics News

Bill O'Reilly talks about "The War on Christmas," and while that concept has been widely lambasted I'm here today to sound a different alarm -- that there is truly a War on Labor Day.

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Obama Will Accept Nomination in Suit Made by Union Members

Elana Levin | Posted 08.28.2008 | Style

Read More: U.S. Economy, Unite Here, Labor, Style, Nafta, Economy, Middle Class, Manufacturing, Fashion, Barack Obama, Union, Manufacturing Jobs, Workers Rights, Style News

Today everyone will learn what we here at UNITE HERE already knew -- that if you bother to buy fair trade coffee your suit should be "fair trade" too -- and by that I mean union made.

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Worker Abuse At Nation's Biggest Kosher Slaughterhouse Prompts Ethics Debate

AP | RACHEL ZOLL | Posted 08.11.2008 | Home

Read More: Workers Rights, Kosher, Iowa, Slaughterhouse, Judaism, Food Politics, Politics of Food, Home News

NEW YORK — Very little goes unexamined in the kosher world. From meat and poultry to the coating on vegetables and the ingredients in mouthwash...

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The Return of Government

Robyn Blumner | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Progressive Taxes, Capitalism, Ronald Reagan Legacy, Workers Rights, Fdr, Politics News

If you want to give a name to the coming era in American politics, you could call it the Return of Government. I think of the years between the time ...

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Workers Deserve a Rescue Too

Robyn Blumner | Posted 07.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Workers, Workers Rights, Fannie Mae Freddie Mac Bailout, Gao, Business News

There always seems to be plenty of money and will to rescue financial giants, but when the working stiffs of America need help to get paid, our government doesn't have enough resources to help.

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America's Peasant Class

Robyn Blumner | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Illegal Immigrants, Workers, Workers Rights, Politics News

Meatpacking at a unionized facility was at one time a ticket to a middle-class life. Today, thanks to absurdly lax enforcement of immigration laws, the same type of work buys a peasant's existence.

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A Country that Trades Us Down: We Deserve Better

Richard Trumka | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Yuan, Economy, United Nations, Beef Recall, Jobs, Congress, Afl-Cio, China, Food Recalls, Elections, Labor, Human Rights, Tax Policy, Trade, International Labor Organization, Workers' Rights, Working Families, Unions, Toxic Toys, Ilo, Politics News

Killer candy from Mexico and toxic toys from Chinese factories should be part of a B grade horror film. Instead, recalls involving 20 million toys and...

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Restoring the Freedom to Form Unions: A Long-Lasting Boost for a Faltering Economy

Stewart Acuff | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Workers' Rights, Employee Free Choice Act, Unions, Economy, Politics News

By Stewart Acuff, AFL-CIO Organizing Director, and Sheldon Friedman, AFL-CIO Voice@Work Research Coordinator Amid the chatter about the worsening e...

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Introducing This Election's Swing Vote

Sally Kohn | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: Outsourcing, Community Values Voters, Dennis Kucinich, Heartland Presidential Forum, John Edwards, Chris Dodd, Hillary Clinton, Immigration, 2008 Election, Racial Profiling, Barack Obama, Workers Rights, Politics News

Community values voters are already the lifeblood of our nation. This election, they will be the pulse of our politics as well.

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