U.S. unions, Canadian energy sign pact on transnational pipeline
Four U.S. construction unions signed a Project Labor Agreement on Sept. 14 with a large Canadian energy company, to build a big trans-national oil pipeline from the oil sands of Alberta to the refineries of Texas' Gulf Coast.
BP admits guilt in Texas City safety violations
BP has finally agreed to pay millions in fines and repairs for its deadly 2005 refinery blast - but the whole industry is "a mess," the Steelworkers union says.
Gearing up for a green economy and a union job
A Green Technician training partnership between an electrical contractors group and IBEW Local 481 helped capture "millions of dollars worth of labor" for the union's members.
Labor Department aids workers displaced by BP's oil spill
The U.S. Department of Labor today announced an award of $27 million in National Emergency Grants to four key Gulf Coast states to assist workers displaced by BP's oil spill.
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Fishermen take a beating from oil spill
NEW ORLEANS - Chet Held, 48, has been fishing the waters here off the Gulf Coast since he was a little boy.
“Worse than Katrina,” La. leaders warn oil spill worse than media says
NEW ORLEANS - Labor leaders here say the oil spill will be worse for workers in this region than Hurricane Katrina was almost five years ago and that the major media, both locally and nationally, are actually downplaying its significance.
AFL-CIO launches online college
AFL-CIO is joining the National Labor College and the Princeton Review to launch an online College for Working Families.
U.S. union members delivered jobs message in Copenhagen
Forty union members from the U.S. went to the climate change talks in Copenhagen to give world leaders the working class view on saving the planet.
Feeling heat, U.S.-China firms say they’ll build turbines here
Under pressure from the nation’s biggest manufacturing union, a U.S.-China energy partnership said it would build a factory here, creating 1,000 jobs.
Foreign companies getting bulk of green stimulus
Of the $1.05 billion of stimulus funds handed out for clean energy grants since Sept. 1, 84 percent - $849 million - has gone to foreign wind companies.
