Labor & Employment Law

1,600 Washington Nurses Join National Nurses United

Posted on October 08, 2010
By a better than 15-1 margin, the 1,600 registered nurses in Washington, D.C.?s largest hospital, Washington Hospital Center (WHC), voted to join National Nurses United (NNU) this week. The nurses have been in the independent organization Nurses United of the National Capital Region will now be a part of NNU...

More Jobs Lost in Sept., as Corporations Hoard Cash, Refuse to Hire

Posted on October 08, 2010
       Some 95,000 jobs were lost in September, fueled by a loss of government employment, which declined by 159,000 jobs and minimal hiring in the private sector, which added 64,000 jobs. The new jobs data released by the Labor Department today also show the nation’s September’s unemployment rate remained at unchanged from August at 9...

Republican ?Pledge? Would Make Life Worse for People of Color

Posted on October 08, 2010
      If people of color needed a reason to vote in the November election, the Republican Party gave them a handful in its ?Pledge to America.? AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka points out that the America the Republicans envision doesn?t look like the real America, with barely 2 percent of the images in the “Pledge to America” document depicting people of color...

UAW Members Seek Just Contract at Kohler

Posted on October 08, 2010
    Members of UAW Local 833 picket outside of the Kohler Co. headquarters.         Nearly 2,000 workers and their supporters held an informational picket in front of Kohler Co. headquarters in Kohler, Wis., this week in solidarity with UAW Local 833 as they fight to put the needs of working families ahead of corporate greed...

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Labor and Hip Hop Come Together for ?Respect My Vote? Campaign

Posted on October 08, 2010
       It?s fresh, it?s hot and it?s got a serious message: In 2010, young people have a big stake in the outcome of this election and the only way the powers that be will respect them is if they vote and make the politicians listen to their concerns...

Republicans Out of Step: New Survey Finds Two-Thirds say Raise the Minimum Wage

Posted on October 07, 2010
Recently, a host of major Republican candidates have attacked the federal minimum wage while GOP party leaders have been silent about the assault. From Alaska to Connecticut and in congressional races in-between, Republican Senate candidates have called the minimum wage unconstitutional, too much, or just plain unneeded...

W.Va. ?Hicks? Sought for Republican Campaign Commercial

Posted on October 07, 2010
What do the people who make Republican television campaign ads think of West Virginians?  Apparently not much because when the casting call went out for actors to portray some typical West Virginia voters in a John Raese ad attacking Gov. Joe Manchin?s run for the U...

Big Insurance, Pharma, Wall Street and John Boehner

Posted on October 07, 2010
Stacia Haley in Seattle worked all her life and raised a child as a single parent. Yet she has no retirement income other than Social Security. [Social Security] is all many of us will have, if we live long enough to retire. Stacia is right. Some 64 percent of America’s retirees rely on Social Security for 50 percent or more of their income...

Young and Worried About Retirement

Posted on October 07, 2010
      Melissa, a college senior, says she never thought about retirement until she saw her parents dip into their retirement savings to help make ends meet after her father lost his job. Now it?s one of her top worries. Melissa told her story at Retirement USA, where an online survey finds that 83 percent of  respondents say younger workers will fare worse in retirement than current retirees...

Job Tracker: Outsourcers Can Run, But Now They Can?t Hide

Posted on October 07, 2010
      In the past decade, more than 5 million manufacturing jobs and 850,000 information sector jobs have disappeared?many of which have been shipped overseas. This outsourcing is encouraged by faulty trade and tax policies that corporate executives use to boost record-breaking profits and outrageous and obscene executive salaries...

October 7: World Day for Decent Work

Posted on October 07, 2010
       From the 175,000 people at the One Nation Working Together rally Oct. 2 to the hundreds of thousands in mass demonstrations across Europe last week, workers are demanding elected leaders stop talking about creating jobs and actually get down to the business of putting people back to work...

Anti-Union, Far Right Groups Push and Pay for Republican Agenda

Posted on October 06, 2010
They come with patriotic, populist and even progressive sounding names and deep, deep pockets. But Americans for Job Security, Freedom Works, Americans for Prosperity and other groups whose election ads are strangling the airwaves are part of a far-right, anti-union, special interest group cadre trying to buy the election...

RNC?s Steele Refuses to Say if Minimum Wage Is Constitutional?BTW, the Answer Is YES!

Posted on October 06, 2010
    Republicans say the federal minimum wage law violates the Constitution. Tell these workers.         It?s one thing for Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele to be unable to remember the federal minimum wage?$7.25 an hour (chump change to Steele, but darn important to the worker trying to stay afloat on the minimum wage)...

Stimulus Money Creates Job, Rebuilds Rail Cars

Posted on October 05, 2010
      In Delaware, 50 union workers, including 20 Electrical Workers (IBEW) members, are at work and paying their bills and mortgages, thanks to economic recovery money that is also saving Amtrak millions of dollars in new equipment. Those jobs are part of as many as 3...

Creating Jobs Takes Center Stage at ?Keep It Made in America? Tour

Posted on October 05, 2010
        With the midterm election just four weeks away, all the polls show the economy and jobs top the list of voter concerns. The question everyone is asking is ?How do we turn the economy around?? The Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) has one answer: Keep It Made in America...

AFT?s Weingarten: Don?t Blame Tenure for Bad Teachers

Posted on October 05, 2010
       The documentary ?Waiting for Superman,? while it offers some valid points, ultimately makes it seem like the nation’s public school classrooms are filled with incompetent, bad teachers and the  teachers? unions keep them there by granting them tenure or a lifetime job...

Foreign Money Helps Finance Chamber?s Political Attack Ads

Posted on October 05, 2010
The Chamber of Commerce?which, as of mid-September alone, has aired more than 8,000 ads on behalf of GOP Senate candidates??is likely skirting long-standing campaign finance law that bans the involvement of foreign corporations in American elections,? according to a Think Progress investigation released this morning...

California Sues Carwash Owners for $6.6 Million

Posted on October 04, 2010
      The struggle for justice for carwash workers in southern California took a big step forward today. State Attorney General Jerry Brown filed a lawsuit seeking $6.6 million in back pay and penalties for the largely immigrant Latino carwash workers employed at eight carwashes throughout California...

Alaska?s Miller Claims Minimum Wage is Unconstitutional. Really

Posted on October 04, 2010
We?ve heard some wacky things this election season. And then again, we have some wacky candidates. But Joe Miller, the tea party/Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Alaska gets this week?s ?You?re kidding me, right?? prize for going on national television and saying the federal minimum wage is unconstitutional...

Workers Vow to Fight to Save Avondale as Layoffs Begin

Posted on October 04, 2010
      Just days after some 175,000 people came together to march for jobs, justice and education, a real life struggle for jobs is being waged at Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans. Today, the first layoffs at the shipyard began. Eventually, Northrop Grumman plans to lay off all 5,000 of the workers and get out of the shipbuilding business altogether...

Professionals Make Up Largest Group of Union Members

Posted on October 04, 2010
    Laurie Kennington         Laurie Kennington is one of the emerging faces of unions in the 21st century. A Yale graduate (Class of 2001), she is the new president of UNITEHERE! Local 34, the largest union on the Yale campus. Kennington, who joined the union right after college, and Local 34, both symbolize the rapid growth of professionals and women among union members...

HealthCare.Gov Expands Consumer Insurance Info

Posted on October 04, 2010
http://www.healthcare.gov/widget/healthcare_widget.html    If you don?t get your health insurance through work and are looking for coverage for you and your family, HealthCare.gov?s Insurance Finder has expanded the information available to consumers...

Detroit Musicians on Strike Today?and More Bargaining News

Posted on October 04, 2010
Members of the Detroit Federation of Musicians went on strike today, and more news from the “Bargaining Digest Weekly.” The AFL-CIO Collective Bargaining Department delivers daily, bargaining-related news and research resources to more than 1,300 subscribers...

Keep Up with One Nation Live on Twitter

Posted on October 02, 2010
// Good morning, everybody. We a have a beautiful day here in Washington, D.C., and not just weather-wise. There is also the beautiful sight we’re seeing as tens of thousands of union members, civil, human, community, faith and environmental activists are arriving to march and rally at One Nation Working Together to restore economic justice and renew the American Dream for all of us?not just for those depicted in the Republicans? Pledge to America...

?America is One Nation and We Signify that Nation?

Posted on October 02, 2010
Karen Bright got on a bus a little after midnight in Syracuse, N.Y., and rolled down the East Coast for seven hours because she had a message she wanted to deliver to America. Standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall as tens of thousands of union members and our allies in the human rights, faith and workers' rights communities began filling up the wide banks of the Reflecting Pool, Bright said: "It?s important that we make jobs the priority in this country and not all of the other issues that are dividing us...

Photo Stream from One Nation

Posted on October 02, 2010
5:30 a.m.: Pennsylvania Democratic Candidate for Governor Dan Onorato sends off four busloads of teachers from Pittsburgh to One Nation rally. 8 a.m.: AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler joins members of IAM for a pre-rally with unemployed workers...

As Part of One Nation, Union Members Mobilize to Get Out the Vote

Posted on October 02, 2010
While tens of thousands of union members were marching for jobs and economic justice on 10-2-10 in One Nation Working Together rally in Washington, D.C., thousands of their brothers and sisters across the country were knocking on union family doors and volunteering to get out the vote for 11-2-10...

U.S.-Mexico Border Towns Thrive, Despite Bad Immigration Laws

Posted on October 01, 2010
The area along the U.S.-Mexico border is not a lawless line dividing the two countries. Instead, it is a shared region where folks on both sides share an economy, culture, environment and family ties. They also have developed practical ways to address mutual problems in a way that benefits families in both countries...

Net Neutrality Bill Stalls Without Republican Support

Posted on October 01, 2010
A proposed net neutrality bill that its backers had hoped to see introduced before Congress adjourned for the fall elections stalled after Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee refused to back the legislation despite weeks of negotiations...

Construction Workers Protest Pulte Homes? Practices

Posted on October 01, 2010
            Construction workers joined with homeowners, religious allies and local union leaders in a two-day leafleting blitz to educate participants at the annual AARP convention in Orlando, about Pulte Homes? profits-over-people home construction tactics...

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