Democrats, in a move to shelter themselves from angering the biggest donors to their campaigns, are refusing to debate if the CBS News Writers go on strike:
NEW YORK (AP) – A potential strike by CBS news writers imperils the last debate among Democratic presidential contenders before voting is to begin.
In a statement Wednesday, Hillary Rodham [...]
Archive for the 'Labor' Category
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Well, now I’ve heard everything. One of the big headlines coming from the big liberal blog convention last week is that they think that bloggers should organize and form a labor union:
CHICAGO – Do bloggers need their own Norma Rae?
In a move that might make some people scratch their heads, a loosely formed coalition of [...]
How much sympathy would you have for a group of protesters if you knew they were actually local homeless people being paid to picket?
The picketers marching in a circle in front of a downtown Washington office building chanting about low wages do not seem fully focused on their message.
Many have arrived with large suitcases or [...]
The House Democrats passed the “Employee Free Choice Act of 2007” with a margin of 54 votes on Thursday. The misleadingly named bill gets rid of the secret ballot process when employees vote on whether or not to unionize.
By a By a 241-185 vote Thursday, the House passed a bill to modify the National Labor [...]
How would you like to earn up to $31.00 per hour sitting in a chair watching TV or doing a crossword Puzzle? Sound unlikely? Not if you’re a member of the United Auto Workers:
Ken Pool is making good money. On weekdays, he shows up at 7 a.m. at Ford Motor Co.’s Michigan Truck Plant in [...]
It looks as though Gov. Christine Gregoire of Washington has found a way to repay a statewide government employees union for their help in getting her elected:
Government workers in the state of Washington are being hit with a tough choice — if they want to keep their jobs, they have to join the union or [...]
This weekend brought good news for the economy:
CHICAGO (AP) – The AFL-CIO succumbed to division Sunday, with its largest union deciding to bolt the 50-year-old federation and three others poised to do so in a dispute over how to reverse organized labor’s long slide.
The four unions, representing nearly one-third of the AFL-CIO’s 13 million members, [...]
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union has hired democratic campaign operatives to run its effort to force Wal-Mart to unionize.
Now the union has recruited strategists from the 2004 Howard Dean and Wesley Clark campaigns, and they are mounting a crusade that goes beyond the usual union tactics, such as the boycott or shareholder resolution [...]
Wal-Mart, arguably the most successful retailer in the world, is coming under attack from unions and competitors over the wages they pay workers:
With most of Wal-Mart’s workers earning less than $19,000 a year, a number of community groups and lawmakers have recently teamed up with labor unions in mounting an intensive campaign aimed at prodding [...]
As if I needed one, today I found another reason in the New York Times to continue to shop at Wal-Mart:
Shoppers in this Quebec mill town are about to pay more for ice-fishing gear, snowmobile covers and cheese curds for poutine: the local Wal-Mart is closing this spring.
But Wal-Mart’s announcement in February that it could [...]
