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9/29/2010 2:46 PM
Two Employment Insurance measures, which temporarily increased the number of weeks Employment Insurance benefits were payable to claimants, came to an end on September 12.
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9/29/2010 10:39 AM
The Senate voted 56-43 on Sept. 23 to reject a joint resolution (S.J. Res. 30)—which had slim chances of becoming law—seeking to revoke a National Mediation Board rule dealing with the board's representation election procedures for airline and railroad workers. The resolution of disapproval, offered by Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), received the support of 40 Republican senators and three Democratic senators—Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), and Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.). Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) did not vote.
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9/2/2010 12:41 PM
In a Labor Day video message (also available in Spanish here) for America’s workers, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis says that in her travels around the country, “Many of you have told me you want an America that ‘produces things again.”
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8/25/2010 6:00 PM
(From Mike Hall at the AFL-CIO Now blog)
Maybe when he’s back on some Wyoming ranch, Alan Simpson can avoid stepping in it. But the co-chairman of the federal budget deficit commission seems to squish deep into it, every time he opens his apparently out-of-control mouth about
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8/24/2010 11:16 AM
A Department of Energy Inspector General report finds that Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant recipients have spent only 8.4 percent of the $3.2 billion authorized for the program. The delays was reported to have been due to administrative support for the program – until May 2010, only two DOE employees were working on the program. Part of the blame, from the Inspector Generals’ Report, falls on Department personnel not being accustomed to implementing Davis Bacon provisions to individual projects.
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8/20/2010 10:04 AM
During its Aug. 4-5 meeting in Washington, D.C., the AFL-CIO Executive Council issued a statement supporting the One Nation coalition and its October 2 Washington D.C. march for jobs.
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8/16/2010 12:58 PM
The employment situation in the construction industry continues to lag across the United States, as July employment figures from the U.S. Department of Labor show the unemployment rate for the construction industry virtually unchanged at roughly 20% nationwide.
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8/16/2010 12:52 PM
The rising costs of education are a hurdle for working families. But thanks to a new Union Plus discount, as a union member, you and your children can now afford the preparation needed to get the college edge. Save 15-60% on The Princeton Review’s college preparation classes with your Union Plus College Test Preparation Discount.
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8/4/2010 2:59 PM
Remarks from president Barack Obama delivered to the AFL-CIO on August 4, 2010.
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7/28/2010 10:47 AM
After spending tens of millions of dollars trying to kill the new health care reform law, the nation’s big health insurance companies now are "sparing no expense to weaken this new law and the protection it promises to America’s consumers," says Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.).
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