Senate GOP blocks Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Bill
WASHINGTON (PAI)--Again turning their backs on workers, Senate Republicans mustered enough votes to defeat pro-labor legislation on April 23. In this case, it was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay bill, which garnered a 56-42 majority, but needed 60 votes to halt the talkathon. The House passed it earlier. But the Senate vote may have killed it.
Metro Detroit AFL-CIO supports national health care
DETROIT — Almost every hand went up when John Dick asked the audience: “Who knows someone without health care?”
Hollywood to the docks labor power fills the streets
LOS ANGELES — More than 5,000 union activists and supporters rallied at the harbor here, April 17, roaring their approval of an assertive, one-for-all and all-for-one strategy to change the national and local direction this year.
A wolf in sheeps clothing: Vote No on 98, Yes on 99!
Dueling ballot initiatives dealing with the same subject — reforming the government’s ability to take private property under eminent domain — will share center stage in California’s June 3 statewide primary election.
Texas nurses organize
HOUSTON – Nurses at Tenet Healthcare, owned by Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center Hospital, voted March 28 to organize and form a union with the California Nurses Association. The hospital is located in northwest Houston and employs 275 registered nurses.
Opposition to racist sheriff's 'saturation raids' grows
PHOENIX – Elected officials, religious leaders, community organizations and civil libertarians have joined a rising chorus here of Arizonans condemning the blatantly racist grandstanding of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
U.S. and Mexican workers join hands
The AFL-CIO announced April 17 that it has entered into a formal alliance with Enlace, a coalition of 21 Mexican labor rights groups representing 300,000 low-wage workers in that country.
Tell Congress to take action on global warming
Imagine hundreds of thousands of calls flooding Congressional phone lines. That is what LCV and our coalition partners plan to generate today—Earth Day—to demand action on global warming.
Workers Correspondence: ARAMARK workers in Houston fight for justice
I attended the Cesar Chavez march in Houston on March 29. Leaders of many unions were there continuing the battles fought by that great union leader. About 200 people from a wide variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds participated.
They take care of their own
If anything ever smelled of cronyism and favoritism it was the recent decision by the Federal Reserve to set up a special bargain basement where cheap loans are now available to Wall Street kingpins largely responsible for screwing up our economy.
