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HEARING REVEALS BUSH REGIME'S ABANDONMENT OF ERGONOMICS
The anti-worker GOP Bush regime’s
abandonment of enforcing job safety and health
standards when ergonomic injuries come up is even
larger than official government data show.
News Item · PAI · May 9, 2008
MILLER SEEKS FEDERAL CRIMINAL PROBE OF CRANDALL CANYON MINE BLASTS
House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George
Miller (D-Calif.) formally asked the GOP Bush
government’s Justice Department for an investigation
to see if criminal violations occurred before August’s
Crandall Canyon, Utah, fatal coal mine explosions.
News Item · PAI · May 9, 2008
SENATE PANEL ADDS JOBLESS BENEFITS EXTENSION TO BUSH WAR FUNDING BILL
The Democratic-run Senate Appropriations Committee passed
a measure extending federal jobless benefits to 39
weeks in most states--and 52 in a few--up from the
present 26 weeks.
News Item · PAI · May 9, 2008
FED TO RE-LAUNCH "McCAIN REVEALED" CAMPAIGN; UNIONISTS IN MICHIGAN, ST. PAUL GET HEAD START
The AFL-CIO will re-launch its
"McCain Revealed" campaign in dozens of cities on
March 10 and March 17, focusing on Arizona Sen. John
McCain's health care and economic plans.
News Item · PAI · May 9, 2008
WHITE HOUSE WITHDRAWS BATTISTA AS NLRB NOMINEE
The GOP Bush regime announced May 6
that it withdrew the nomination of management-side
labor lawyer Robert J. Battista, former National Labor
Relations Board chairman, to a new 5-year term on the
board.
News Item · International Labor Communications Association · May 9, 2008
UNIONS PLAN PERMANENT WORKERS MEMORIAL
Larry Bevis, an American Federation of Teachers member
from Birmingham, Ala., will be remembered forever.
That’s because Bevis' name, thanks to his union, will
be one the first to be inscribed in the brickwork of
the permanent Workers Memorial to be erected on the
grounds of the National Labor College/George Meany
Center in Silver Spring, Md.
News Item · PAI · May 2, 2008
WITNESSES DEMAND HIGHER OSHA PENALTIES, STRONGER ENFORCEMENT
Workers’ safety and health on the
job are hampered by small fines and fitful--at
best--enforcement of job safety and health laws,
witnesses told the Senate Labor Committee on April 29.
News Item · PAI · May 2, 2008
APRIL UNEMPLOYMENT RATE AT 5%
And as you delve deeper into the BLS data, more
bad numbers appear.
News Item · PAI · May 2, 2008
ILWU CONDUCTS 1-DAY WEST COAST STRIKE TO PROTEST IRAQ WAR
Angering their bosses, 25,000
members of the International Longshore and Warehouse
Union conducted a 1-day strike on May 1--May Day, the
international workers day--to protest the continuing
war in Iraq and demand the troops come home.
News Item · PAI · May 2, 2008
CERVICAL CANCER WALK SCHEDULED FOR MAY 17
Unionists nationwide walks on
universal health care won’t be the only workers
tamping the streets on May 17, as the Coalition of
Labor Union Women joins other groups in a walk against
cervical cancer that day, in Washington.
News Item · PAI · May 2, 2008
