by admin | Apr 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
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 | Apr 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
Two hundred Local 6 members went on strike at three Waste Management facilities during the early morning hours of March 15, shutting-down the company’s East Bay operations for six hours. Members organized multiple picket lines beginning at 2am in three locations: the...
by admin | Mar 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
British Columbia – Members from Local 502 made a generous donation to the Surrey Food Bank with a food donation of over 980 pounds and and $1600 . Their next fundraiser, for the Vancouver Children’s Hospital, also kicked off in March. The yearly event...
by admin | Mar 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
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 | Uncategorized
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 | Uncategorized
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...
