Iraq vets to McCain: Support our GIs!
WASHINGTON — Demanding that he back a “GI Bill of Rights” that would allow millions of vets to attend college, Iraq war veterans here, April 14, delivered 30,000 signatures on petitions to John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate.
Bush hands Iraq disaster to next administration
In their testimony before Congress this month, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, and Ambassador Ryan Crocker made it clear the Bush administration is passing its Iraq disaster on to the next administration.
American Axle workers and the 2008 elections
The workers at American Axle are doing all they can. Their cause is just, they are united in battle and unions from all over are coming to this plant on the Detroit-Hamtramck border to lend support.
Labor, Dem leaders draft new stimulus plan that aids jobless
Sen. Edward Kennedy and AFL-CIO President John Sweeney announced a new economic stimulus plan that extends jobless benefits by 13 weeks. The April 10 announcement followed a meeting between labor and congressional leaders in Washington D.C., where the package was drawn up.
Longshore group plans May 1 action on Iraq war
Nearly 100 delegates to the Longshore Caucus of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union voted last February to support an eight hour daytime “stop-work” meeting at all West Coast ports May 1, calling for an immediate safe return of U.S. troops from Iraq.
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The People’s Weekly World / Nuestro Mundo has added a new subscription rate, helping readers build the paper. Now, for only $45 per year, readers can get a “solidarity pack” subscription. With this offer, they get two papers a week—one to read, and the other to give to a friend or ally.
What are the jobs of the future?
Trends in privately funded research and development tell a lot about the kinds of investments corporations are planning for the future, and what kinds of occupations will be growing or declining both in the U.S. and around the world.
Oceans in trouble
Disturbing news continues to emerge from beneath the waves. In December, science journals reported that disappearing deep-sea species could trigger an ocean-wide collapse of sea life, that global warming is destroying coral — and that loss of top predators is knocking ocean ecosystems out of whack.
This Week in Labor: Unemployment, NLRB failures, mortgage crisis...
Official unemployment rates surged 0.3 percent in March to 5.1 percent. Included in the official surge were 434,000 more jobless, 48,000 more factory jobs lost, 51,000 construction jobs lost and more than one-third of the jobless out of work for longer than 14 weeks.
Modern-day slavery exposed by guest workers
Daniel Castellanos was lured from his native city of Lima, Peru, all the way to the U.S. Gulf Coast where, he was told, a construction job and a green card would be waiting for him. All he had to do to land the full-time, $11-an-hour job was pay $5,000 to a recruiter in Peru.
