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Gangster Capitalism: Don't pay the workers

Leo Canty

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Many have begun to believe that government regulation, monitoring, and enforcement is a bad thing.

Well, it is — if playing fair hampers your profits.

Union leaders hit Senate health care plan's insurance tax

PAI/Mark Gruenberg

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Union leaders praised Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) for crafting a comprehensive 10-year $849 billion health care revision bill, but blasted his inclusion of a tax on workers’ health insurance to help pay for it.

NAACP, labor demand bold action on jobs

John Wojcik/People's World

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

The nation's top labor, civil rights and community leaders joined forces here today and put forward a bold program they say is needed to create millions of new jobs.

AFL-CIO, allies launch campaign for jobs package

PAI/Mark Gruenberg

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

The joint campaign will involve the AFL-CIO, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the National Council of La Raza and the Center for Community Change among others, the groups said at a joint “Spotlight on the Jobs Crisis” panel discussion/press conference on Nov. 17.

STEELWORKERS STEP UP CAMPAIGN TO FORCE OIL FIRMS TO STOP USING HYDROFLUORIC ACID

PAI/Mark Gruenberg

Friday, November 13, 2009

The increased campaign is designed to pressure the major oil companies to switch to safer ways of producing high-octane gasoline for the nation’s cars and trucks.

TNG-CWA condemns deadly violence against journalists in the Philippines

The Newspaper Guild-CWA, on behalf of its 30,000 members in Canada and the United States, expresses its solidarity with the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines in condemning the violence that has led to the loss of at least 57 lives, including a rep

A win for green jobs in the US; but there's more to do

A wind power company has announced it will not use $400 million in federal stimulus dollars to offshore jobs to China, according to the IBEW's blog. The wind turbine plant will be built in Texas, a reversal that came following public outcry over the initial plan. While this is a victory for adding green jobs to the US economy, there is still much to be done to make sure these are good union jobs.

Support striking Vale Inco workers on Twitter

Labourstart, the global solidarity website, is urging unionists to show their support for 3500 striking union mineworkers in Canada by signing and "retweeting" a Twitter petition. On Twitter? Head over to the campaign and sign up.

Blue-Green Alliance: Strong renewable energy standard will revitalize US manufacturing

Nov. 22: Environmental groups and industrial unions are leaning hard on Minnesota’s U.S. senators, pushing for vigorous, new renewable energy standards that, according to a new report, will revitalize the hard-hit manufacturing sector of the U.S. economy. Read the full story by Michael Moore at Workday Minnesota.

Puerto Rican paper celebrates its first year with online presence

Nov. 20--It was a year ago today that a group of 90 locked‑out newspaper professionals showed its entrepreneurial spirit by launching the Puerto Rico Daily Sun – which is not only the island’s only English‑language daily newspaper but the first local daily to be run by a workers’ cooperative. Read the full story at the Guild Reporter at TNG-CWA.

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