AFL-CIO's veep: With others unions can change the nation
"The union movement should join with others who are saying 'instead of building more prisons, we should be creating more jobs and offering more job training.'"
Voters speak: A resounding victory for paid sick days nationwide
The lesson from Tuesday could not be clearer: No worker should have to choose between missing a day's pay and caring for their health.
A GOP fraud – defrauding voters
The GOP is working desperately to deny the right to vote to citizens it doesn't like. You know, poor people, black people, Hispanic people, old people, females.
Ohio voters make progressive shift
Voters in Cincinnati, Ohio, by huge margin, turned down a tea party initiative that would've wiped out public worker's pensions in that city.
Voters say bring back call center jobs
The Communications Workers are launching a campaign in 50 legislative races nationwide around the issues of offshore call centers and bringing the jobs back to the U.S.
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.
