He taketh from the mine owners and he giveth to the miners
Joe Main got word this week from President Obama that he is the president’s pick for the job of director of the federal government’s Mine Safety and Health Administration.
Making it harder to shut down plants
A bipartisan group of legislators has introduced a bill to make it tougher for companies to pull the rug out from under workers by shutting down plants. They say that the country’s 21-year- old plant closing law is not doing the job.
The 60th Senator puts workers first
On his first day in office, July 7, Minnesota’s new Democratic senator, Al Franken, showed whose side he is on.
Faulty signal system may be source of DC Metro crash
The National Transportation Safety Board has not yet finished its investigation of the crash on the DC Metro which killed 9 people on June 22. But the outlines of a possible explanation are emerging.
Haitian and Dominican workers build solidarity
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic — A delegation of Haitian unionists met in Santo Domingo July 1-2 with unionists from the informal sector of the working people of the Dominican Republic.
Labor-backed think tank: Second big stimulus needed to ease worst crash since 1929
A top economist at the labor-backed Economic Policy Institute said today that this month’s jobless figures and other economic indicators show the “urgent need” for “a second stimulus package as large as or even bigger than” the $700 billion Economic Recovery Act passed in the opening weeks of the Obama administration.
Migrant workers' cooperatives as a crisis response
MALANG CITY, East Java, Indonesia (ILO Online) — The global economic and social crisis has shuttered the dreams of a better life and income of many migrant workers. But ...
First-ever union contract approved at worlds largest pork plant
More than 5,000 workers at the world’s largest pork processing plant, Smithfield Packing in Tar Heel, N.C., approved their first-ever union contract in voting that ended this morning.
Unemployment rate hits 26 year high
The unemployment rate soared to 9.5 percent in June, a 26-year high, and up a fraction from 9.4 percent in May. The Department of Labor said 467,000 jobs were lost in June.
Franken wins, Coleman concedes
“America’s workers congratulate Al Franken,” declared John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, in a statement.
