Swapping Stories: Community
RED CROSS FORCES PHILA.-N.J. AFT WORKERS TO STRIKE
RED CROSS FORCES PHILA.-N.J. AFT WORKERS TO STRIKE
PHILADELPHIA (PAI)—Continuing its campaign to strip its blood bank workers of their rights and their health care, the American Red Cross – one of the nation’s largest charities – has forced some 250 nurses and blood donor collectors in Philadelphia and southern New Jersey to strike, over blood bank safety issues.
ASIAN-AMERICANS REPORT VARIED FORMS OF JOB DISCRIMINATION
ASIAN-AMERICANS REPORT VARIED FORMS OF JOB DISCRIMINATION
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
WASHINGTON (PAI)—Asian-Americans are reporting varied forms of job discrimination, with complicating factors – cultural and economic – that make it extra hard for them to win rights, wages and benefits, a panel told D.C. unionists on May 21.
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS MASS AT ‘WE ARE ONE’ RALLIES, EVENTS
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS MASS
AT ‘WE ARE ONE’ RALLIES, EVENTS
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
Hundreds of thousands of people, many of them wearing red or sporting red-white-and-black pins, massed at rallies, teach-ins and other events nationwide on April 4 in a show of strength for workers’ rights.
Words of Witness
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UFCW CAMPAIGNING VS. WAL-MART’S NEW INVASION OF CHICAGO, NEW YORK, D.C.
UFCW CAMPAIGNING VS. WAL-MART’S NEW
INVASION OF CHICAGO, NEW YORK, D.C.
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
Wal-Mart, the monster retailer known for its always-low wages, always-bad benefits and always-negative impact on local businesses, is again trying to invade Chicago and New York, and has added Washington, D.C., to its list. And the United Food and Commercial Workers are once again campaigning against the anti-union, anti-worker behemoth. UFCW’s also picking up community support.
LIVING WAGE ADVOCATE: LAWS HAVE POSITIVE IMPACT
Workday Minnesota contributed material for this story.Press Associates, Inc.
Keynote Address, ILCA Awards, 2010
ED OTT
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
2010 ILCA AWARDS LUNCHEON
November 19, 2010
(Transcript from video by Howard Kling)
AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust finances housing development in San Francisco
AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust to Provide $33 Million in Financing for Arc Light
Company in San Francisco
San Francisco – The AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust (HIT) announced in September a $33 million
commitment of union pension capital to finance the Arc Light Co. project, a development
that will create much needed in-town rental apartments. The project will convert an historic
commercial building in the South Beach neighborhood into a multifamily
development.
ED OTT: LABOR MUST RETHINK METHODS, TARGETED WORKERS
FORMER NY COUNCIL HEAD OTT: LABOR MUST
RETHINK METHODS, TARGETED WORKERS
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
WASHINGTON (PAI)—Saying the methods labor used to gain political clout and the targets it sought among workers both flopped, former New York City Central Labor Council head Ed Ott urged unions to rethink both, long and hard.
INTERFAITH COALITION ALERTS CONGREGATIONS ABOUT RED CROSS MISTREATMENT OF WORKERS
INTERFAITH COALITION ALERTS CONGREGATIONS
ABOUT RED CROSS MISTREATMENT OF WORKERS
CHICAGO (PAI)—Interfaith Worker Justice, the pro-labor religious coalition based in Chicago, is sending communications to congregations nationwide alerting them the Red Cross is mistreating its union workers, Executive Director Kim Bobo says.
