by admin | Apr 5, 2013 | In the News
Liberals are mounting strong criticisms of President Obama amid news that his budget will include a Social Security benefit cut — an official endorsement of a policy compromise he’s offered Republicans for years — and warning Democrats not to dare vote to cut the...
by admin | Mar 11, 2013 | In the News
from the Columbian: Several hundred people rallied Friday morning at Esther Short Park to support the 44 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union who are locked out from work at the United Grain export terminal at the Port of Vancouver. The Friday...
by admin | Mar 10, 2013 | In the News
Labor’s Turnaround The AFL-CIO has a plan to save the movement. BY David Moberg The mood at the meeting, one AFL-CIO top staffer said, was that the future of the labor movement was at risk if they continued “business as usual.” As I waited outside the AFL-CIO’s...
by admin | Mar 9, 2013 | In the News
March 1, 2013 — Leslie Moody Washington, D.C. is so stalled with fiscal crises and gridlock that reformers may find more success at City Hall than in the nation’s Capitol. Case in point: climate change. While many were cheered by its prominence in President...
by admin | Mar 8, 2013 | In the News
Within a week of November’s hard-fought elections, the AFL-CIO and many of its member unions had already started a new campaign. It wasn’t linked to the 2016 presidential race, or any election. It was a campaign to make sure that the politicians whom labor unions had...
by admin | Mar 8, 2013 | In the News
From the International Transport Workers’ Federation: The ITF is keeping the vessel Long Beach under observation after it reportedly loaded at the Mitsui-UGC terminal at the port of Vancouver, Washington State, USA, where unionised dock workers are currently locked...
