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4/29/2009 6:30 PM
Advocates for Pulte/Del Webb homeowners and construction workers successfully addressed the company’s executives at the National Homebuilders’ Association “Building for Boomers” award ceremony on April 28 in Philadelphia.
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4/29/2009 6:13 PM
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., one of the last Republican moderates, announced April 28 he is switching parties and will run for re-election next year as a Democrat. But one news report said the veteran lawmaker is not switching his position against halting the planned GOP filibuster against the Employee Free Choice Act.
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4/29/2009 5:27 PM
With the possibility of the swine flu outbreak worsening in scope, the SMWIA and the Sheet Metal Occupational Health Institute Trust is resolved to keeping SMWIA members, employers and their families prepared. Below is a fact sheet concerning swine flu.
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4/29/2009 5:18 PM
The newly appointed United States Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis honored the more than 5,000 workers who are killed on the job each year and the more than 50,000 who die from occupation illness and disease at National Labor College’s Workers Memorial Day ceremony. She joined union leaders and hundreds of members, college faculty, students and staff who were on hand for the groundbreaking of the new Workers Memorial to be constructed on the center of the College’s campus.
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4/24/2009 11:57 AM
 As the debate heats up in the United States Congress over passage of the Employee Free Choice Act -- a bill that would allow workers’ freedom to bargain with corporations for better wages and benefits – corporate America is spending millions of dollars to kill the bill with a disingenuous disinformation campaign that includes TV and radio advertisements, lobbying members of Congress and holding nationwide seminars like the one held earlier today by the South Florida Associated Builders and Contractors Association.
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4/23/2009 10:41 AM
On Earth Day 2009, there is a growing recognition that green jobs will play a key role in fighting global warming, creating energy self-sufficiency, helping the nation recover from the current recession and moving workers into stable middle-class jobs.
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4/23/2009 10:37 AM
In testimony today before the a House Ways and Means subcommittee, EPI labor market expert Heidi Shierholz presents a detailed picture of the current and worsening state of the U.S. labor market. Her presentation offers a grim and vivid rendering of the mounting challenges families are facing as they struggle to stay afloat
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4/21/2009 1:34 PM
The UAW has asked for our assistance in calling on all working people to stand up for active and retired U.S. autoworkers. The Obama administration has established tight deadlines for the restructuring of Chrysler and General Motors (GM). For the federal government to provide additional assistance to the automakers, the restructuring of Chrysler must be completed by the end of April, and the General Motors restructuring must be completed by the end of May.
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By host on
4/21/2009 1:30 PM
The Employee Free Choice Act has become one of the most-debated political topics in the country, as working people push to protect their freedom to form unions and deep-pocketed corporate groups spend big on anti-worker ads and disinformation campaigns. Over the past two weeks, union members and allies took part in more than 350 events in support of the Employee Free Choice Act, drawing attention all around the country to this critical bill. Here’s a sample of the grassroots actions supporting the national campaign for the Employee Free Choice Act.
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By host on
4/15/2009 12:08 PM
Homebuyers: don’t settle for tales of “dream homes” you hear from Pulte salespeople or realtors working on commission.
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