Oakland Mayor Responds to Police Violence
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan has issued a statement responding to the police violence Tuesday night against the Occupy Oakland protestors that included the use of rubber bullets and tear gas. One of those...
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Across the Country, City Councils Endorsing Local Occupy Movements
When police forces have cracked down on local Occupy encampments, TV cameras have swarmed to cover it. But what’s not being covered as closely are the numerous actions, symbolic and otherwise, on the...
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How Seven Elected Officials Are Standing Up to the Banks
“You have really been fantastic!” wrote William from Bearsville, New York, “Rarely have I been able to write that someone I voted for has actually acted as I would act…truly representative government!...
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“Justice Democrats” at Work: California Pushes Back Against Settlement with...
Photo by Casey Serin on Flickr, via Creative Commons Despite the announcement at the State of the Union of a task force to investigate predatory lending and other sketchy bank practices, the...
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The Desperate Need for Affordable Housing
Photo by woodleywonderworks on Flickr, via Creative Commons In July I wrote about folk stampeding for Section 8 housing vouchers in Dallas, when thousands of people showed up, some waiting all night,...
View ArticleUnion Members Help Kids Learn and Grow in W.Va. and Calif.
by Mike Hall – Reposted from the AFL-CIO NOW Blog If you’re a regular reader of our AFL-CIO Now news blog, you might come to our site without stopping first at the AFL-CIO home page here. If you...
View ArticleGood News: California Takes a Stand Against Foreclosure Fraud
In the years since the vicious, recession-inducing collapse of the housing market, we’ve learned more and more about the irresponsibility and bad practices that caused the bubble and the crash. The...
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Amgen Cuts Ties with ALEC
Amgen, the California-based pharmaceutical giant, has made the decision not to renew their membership with ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council. Amgen is the 31st corporation to announce...
View ArticleJuicy Couture’s Health Care Dodge
Reposted from AFL-CIO NOW Juicy Couture, that hip, L.A.-centric, high-end clothing and apparel chain, is engaging in what can only be described as tragically unhip corporate behavior. It is, workers...
View ArticleBoosting the Minimum Wage in the States Is a No-Brainer
Reposted from AFL-CIO NOW With the federal minimum wage stuck at $7.25 an hour and an increase facing stiff opposition from congressional Republicans, coalitions of union, community, faith and other...
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Dear David: Hitting the Ceiling
Question: I work for a large national retailer. How do you get them to remove caps on wages? I’ve been told that it’s “not a cap,” and that I just “chose not to advance”! There are not enough...
View ArticleDurazo: ‘Los Angeles…the Low-Wage Capital of the Nation’
Reposted from AFL-CIO NOW Journalists are fixated on union members’ donations to the Los Angeles mayoral race to elect Wendy Greuel, Maria Elena Durazo, executive secretary-treasurer of the Los Angeles...
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What Is Alt-Labor? Why Is It Important? Netroots Panel Will Answer Those...
With the rapid rise of worker centers and alternate ways to gain a voice on the job, a traditional union is no longer the only way to organize and bargain for paid sick leave, a raise and other...
View ArticleWorkers in Walmart Supply Chain Strike Against Unsafe Conditions
At 5 a.m. local time, workers at a Mira Loma, Calif., warehouse that ships goods for Walmart launched a two-day strike to protest alleged unsafe working conditions and retaliation against workers who...
View ArticleWorkers Win Voice with AFL-CIO Unions
Emergency medical workers, massage therapists, bus mechanics and home health care workers are among the latest workers to choose a voice on the job with AFL-CIO unions. In California and Arizona, some...
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Trumka, Shuler, Gebre Elected to Lead AFL-CIO
New AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Tefere Gebre Delegates to the 2013 AFL-CIO Convention today elected a trio of top officers to lead the labor movement to become, said re-elected AFL-CIO President...
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‘We Want to Work’: 12 Federal Jobs That Are Vital to the Lives of America’s...
Johnny Zuagar just wants to go back to work. It’s been 72 hours since he’s been locked out of his job at the U.S. Census Bureau in Suitland, Md., and he’s scared. “I don’t know what bills to pay,”...
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5 Shutdown Stories You Need to Read. Tell Us Yours
The nearly two-week-old government shutdown, engineered by House tea party Republicans, is hurting everyday working people and their families. The 800,000 federal workers and tens of thousands of...
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10 Not-So-Fun Facts About the Minimum Wage
It’s time to raise the minimum wage. The majority of America’s working families (80%) agree. Earlier this year, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) introduced a bill that would...
View Article10 Ways Working Families Are ‘Kicking Ass’ for the Middle Class
Sure, working families have been under attack for years, but people across the country are rolling up their sleeves and fighting back to protect workers’ rights and raise living standards for everyone....
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