Jobless rates rise, 533,000 more people lose their jobs in November
WASHINGTON (PAI)--With the nation now officially in a recession for a year -- and expected to stay that way all next year -- the U.S. jobless rate rose 0.2 percent in November to 6.7 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. Another 533,000 people lost their jobs. The number of unemployed shot up to 10.331 million.
The media myth: Detroit's $70-an-hour autoworker
It's been one week since New York Times financial columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote that at General Motors, 'the average worker was paid about $70 an hour, including health care and pension costs.'
Wages in industrial countries to drop, UN labor group warns
The economic crisis is likely to result in wage declines all over the world, with wages dropping faster than production, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said in a report it issued Nov. 28.
Labor was key in turning Ohio, and U.S., blue
CLEVELAND — According to preliminary data, organized labor can claim credit for nearly 40 percent of Barack Obama’s vote in Ohio, turning the state from red to blue, a key element of the national Democratic victory.
Billions for Bank of America, zero for workers
CHICAGO — Bank of America likes to foster a community-oriented image by sponsoring such local events as the Chicago Marathon. But it has revealed a far uglier side, a destroyer the livelihoods and economic wrecker of Chicago neighborhoods.
They auto know better: Fueling anti-union fires
My local newspaper editor, as he does regularly, once again attacked unions as the problem in America. This is the same editor who once said 'all the laziest goof-offs and goldbricks in the newsroom' where he began his career were union officials and that the unionized New York Times editorial writers are nothing more than 'limousine liberals.'
The stories that matter: Workers making things better
WASHINGTON, D.C. – “I remember what she did every weekday in the 1950s, riding the back of that bus in Austin, Texas so she could clean other people’s houses. I remember how he, as a day laborer, suffered the indignity of not being able, with his own labor, to provide for his family.
AFTs Weingarten puts everything but vouchers on the table
WASHINGTON (PAI)--In her first major policy address since being elected President of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten put “everything but vouchers” on the bargaining table--including merit pay and tenure--as long as the results help students and teachers.
Bushs Midnight Rules include weaker family leave, longer driving hours for truckers
WASHINGTON (PAI)--Call them the “Midnight Rules.” In haste, and to meet legal deadlines, the GOP Bush regime pushed through approximately 90 pro-business federal rules before Nov. 22, trying to lock them in so the incoming Obama administration can’t overturn them.
