Cleveland labor: Now is the time to unite
CLEVELAND — Delegates to the North Shore (Cleveland) AFL-CIO Federation of Labor erupted in cheers and applause when President Loree Soggs, referring to Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, opened his report to the June 11 meeting saying, “We now have a candidate.”
World labor group hits U.S. on worker rights
The International Trade Union Congress, which met June 9-11 in Geneva, assailed the lack of workers’ rights in the United States, and called on the World Trade Organization to take up the issue at its biannual review of U.S. trade policy.
Long denied their rights, domestic workers find their voices
WEST MILFORD, N.J. — She came from Guatemala and landed a job as a live-in housekeeper here.
Unions begin big election effort
With the primary season over, labor is wasting no time jumping into the fall campaign.
Fast-buck construction behind crane disaster
NEW YORK — A crane collapse here May 30, killing two construction workers, brought the total of construction-related deaths in the city since January to 19. There have been 31 deaths of construction workers on the job here in the last seven months, a big increase over previous years.
Black trade unionists gear up for election
ST. LOUIS — Barack Obama, in a telephone hook-up May 22, welcomed the 37th annual gathering of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists here by declaring, “We need to reward labor and hard work with a few basic guarantees — health care, education and the right to form a union.”
