Oregon workers petition for jobs, safety net
With the jobless rate in the Rose City at 10.6 percent or 38,402 workers unemployed, the labor movement and its allies are fed up and fighting back.
Texans face tough fights
With their two-thirds GOP majority in the Texas House, the right wing hopes to curtail the right of Texas workers to join unions.
25,000 Ohioans sign to "protect, preserve" Social Security
Dozens of senior activists rallied at the Cleveland AFL-CIO headquarters Monday to "Protect, Preserve and Pass Along Social Security and Medicare" and to "protest the continuing assault on retirees."
Dolores Huerta joins fast for DREAM Act
Sixteen people on hunger strike, and supporters around the country, are continuing to push for passage of the DREAM Act.
Activists rally for jobs and benefits in Chicago
Dozens braved the cold here Dec. 3, to rally at Federal Plaza urging U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., and his GOP colleagues in Washington to extend unemployment benefits for millions nationwide and fund programs that create jobs.
Workers bracing for "right-to-work" assault
The right-wing Republican agenda is becoming more apparent as we inch closer and closer to January 2011 and the start of the new legislative session.
MoveOn.org speakout: No tax cuts for billionaires
“No Tax Bailouts for Billionaires” was the message of thousands of MoveOn.org members who joined street corner “speakouts” outside congressional district offices across the nation Dec. 2.
Despite Christmas hiring, unemployment rate jumps
Just as Nero fiddled while Rome burned, the GOP pushes for tax breaks for billionaires as America's economy crumbles.
Civil unions OK’d in “heart of heartland” Illinois
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - "Exhaustimicated!" that's what Equality Illinois' Rick Garcia told Chicago-based Windy City Times, after this week's historic two-day vote in the Illinois state legislature in favor of same-sex civil unions.
GOP blocks jobless aid, vows to kill all Dem-backed bills
Millions of Americans are almost certain to lose their unemployment checks this month after Congress failed to extend benefits by the Nov. 30 deadline.
