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JOINT BARGAINING, ORGANIZING TOP GOALS OF STEEL WORKERS-BRITISH UNION PACT
JOINT BARGAINING, ORGANIZING TOP GOALS OF STEEL WORKERS-BRITISH UNION PACT   LAS VEGAS (PAI)--Joint bargaining and organizing across the Atlantic Ocean, presenting multi-national corporations with a multi-national union arrayed to battle for its workers, are the top goals of the new pact...
News Item  ·  PAI  ·  Jul 3, 2008

Wal-Mart violated worker rights more than 2 million times, Minnesota judge rules
Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, violated the law more than 2 million times over a six-year period by denying workers time for breaks and forcing them to work "off the clock" for no pay, a Minnesota judge has ruled.
News Item  ·  Workday Minnesota  ·  Jul 3, 2008

ANTI-BUSH BUS GETS ROLLING NATIONWIDE
ANTI-BUSH BUS GETS ROLLING NATIONWIDE     WASHINGTON (PAI)--Call it the carrier of chronicles of calamity.  A 28-ton 45-foot “Bush Legacy Bus” detailing the disasters the anti-worker GOP White House denizen and his GOP congressional minions have foisted on the country...
News Item  ·  PAI  ·  Jun 27, 2008

USWA'S GERARD, AUSTRALIAN UNION LEADER: WRONG ENERGY BILL COULD DEVASTATE MANUFACTURING
USWA’S GERARD, AUSTRALIAN UNION LEADER: WRONG ENERGY BILL COULD DEVASTATE MANUFACTURING By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer     WASHINGTON (PAI)--The wrong type of energy legislation could devastate manufacturing, causing even more high-paying industrial jobs to shift to low-wage...
News Item  ·  PAI  ·  Jun 27, 2008

AFL-CIO ENDORSES OBAMA
AFL-CIO ENDORSES OBAMA By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer     WASHINGTON (PAI)--As expected--it just took time for emotions to cool and to round up the needed votes--the AFL-CIO on the afternoon of June 26 announced it endorsed Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for the presidency....
News Item  ·  PAI  ·  Jun 28, 2008

NEW LEADERSHIP GUIDE FOR UNION WOMEN
NEW LEADERSHIP GUIDE FOR UNION WOMEN     WASHINGTON (PAI)--Prompted by twin findings that female-run units are more successful at winning union organizing drives, but that female organizers often “burn out,” a Michigan State professor has written a new leadership guide for...
News Item  ·  PAI  ·  Jun 20, 2008

MACHINISTS CHEER GAO RULING OVERTURNING AIR FORCE TANKER DEAL
MACHINISTS CHEER GAO RULING OVERTURNING AIR FORCE TANKER DEAL     UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (PAI)--The Machinists cheered a Government Accountability Office ruling--unusual in federal contracting--to overturn the Air Force’s award of a $35 billion contract to build 179 refueling...
News Item  ·  PAI  ·  Jun 20, 2008

HIGH COURT KILLS CALIF.COMPANY NEUTRALITY LAW
HIGH COURT KILLS CALIF.COMPANY NEUTRALITY LAW By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer     WASHINGTON (PAI)--Labor’s campaign to ensure company neutrality in Californian organizing drives died June 19 in the U.S. Supreme Court.     By a 7-2 margin, the justices killed...
News Item  ·  PAI  ·  Jun 20, 2008

HOUSE VOTES PAID FAMILY LEAVE FOR FEDERAL WORKERS
HOUSE VOTES PAID FAMILY LEAVE FOR FEDERAL WORKERS     WASHINGTON (PAI)--By a 278-146 vote, the Democratic-run House June 20 voted for between four and eight weeks of paid family leave for the nation’s 2.7 million federal workers.  The paid leave bill says the remaining four...
News Item  ·  PAI  ·  Jun 20, 2008

OPEN DOOR POLICY: COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
School is not just where Valeria Marquez works. It’s a place where she and her family are welcome to drop in around the clock for learning, healthcare, fun and games, volunteer projects and more learning.
News Item  ·  PSRP Reporter/AFT  ·  Jun 20, 2008

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