Amy Dean: Labor must build "to challenge power"
To re-build the American labor movement we “can’t use the same tired old strategies and tactics,” Amy B. Dean told union members and community activists here at the Friends of the People’s World 7th Annual ‘Working Class Media & Democracy’ forum.
Republicans target labor
Before the dust had settled on the 2010 elections, the Chamber of Commerce, the corporate-secret-donor political action committees and the far right began to move into attack mode against the labor movement. After all, they expect a good return on the hundreds of millions of dollars they spent buying Congress.
Working Families Party wins big in New York
NEW YORK — On Election Day, voters in this state strongly rejected the Republican tide that swept much of the country - but they went a step farther in statewide races by giving more than 100,000 votes to the Working Families Party.
Voters say it's about jobs
The number one issue concerning voters is the same for union families: the economy and jobs.
Labor volunteers keep on going in the final hours
On Election Day today union members are continuing their push right up until the polls close.
Midterm campaigns go down to the wire
President Obama summed up his closing arguments for the 2010 midterm election at a get-out-the-vote event here Saturday that was bigger than any election rally ever held in this city.
No enthusiasm gap at jam-packed union phone bank
CHICAGO - By noon Oct. 29, union members were close to having called 500,000 people in Illinois about the Nov. 2 elections, here at what the Operating Engineers say is the nation's biggest, most state-of-the-art phone bank.
Navistar workers say voting Nov. 2 is about good paying jobs
MELROSE PARK, Ill. - "We need to elect leaders that are friendly to labor and understand that what we need is more jobs, because without jobs, this country can't operate," said Ralph Porter, longtime Navistar worker.
Labor's final dash to the finish
CHICAGO (PAI) - Union leaders and members are in a mad dash to the finish for the 2010 election cycle with leaders crisscrossing the country to concentrate on key races - even phone-banking on Election Day itself - while workers are making home visits, giving shop-floor talks and leafleting.
"Without Ted Strickland I wouldn't have my job"
"Many pronounced the cause hopeless, but fortunately we had the support of this community and we had the support of Gov. Strickland."
