Breaking: UNITE HERE Activist Addresses Delegates Tonight
I just learned that tonight at the Democratic Convention a former Pillowtex worker from North Carolina and leader of the Southern Region of UNITE HERE, Gloria Craven, will address the Democratic...
View ArticleBig Business vs Mom and Pop and Middle-Class Employees
I'm amazed at the amount of negative press in the Wall Street Journal and other pro-business rags against the Employee Free Choice Act. Today, the founder of famed big box store Home Depot speaks out...
View ArticleBig Corporate, WSJ, & CBS vs. Working America and Small Biz
Jackson Lewis Attorneys and Senator George McGovern to be Featured on Labor Day CBS Radio Show Discussing Issues at Stake With Employee Free Choice ActBig business and lawyers from the union busting...
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Farm worker families desperately need your help for safe drinking water
Approximately 200 farm workers and their families live in the 49 units at the Rafael L. Silva Migrant Family Housing Center in Los Banos, CA. These workers don’t have access to safe drinking water....
View ArticleWhen It Comes To Unions, We Should Be Like China
Well, I'm only half serious. But, there is something interesting to watch when it comes to China and its labor movement. And a lesson to learn when a government says "you have to have unions".
View ArticleDayton is ROCKING as Workers Unite to Beat McCain
This is a postcard from one corner of the nationwide effort organized labor is making to elect Barack Obama -- the American Dream Candidate -- President of the United States.I've been spending today in...
View ArticleWhere Is Labor's Leadership In This Crisis?
With the country facing the biggest financial crisis in 100 years, which threatens the homes, livelihoods and bank accounts of millions of working Americans, where is the labor movement? This moment...
View ArticleEither Bail out Main Street or Make the Rich Pay Taxes for any Bailout.
Well, the Dems tried it Paulson's way. We stepped up and tried to save a distorted capitalist system that has been screwing workers with impunity for a long time. And the Republicans said, "no, hell...
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Help farmworkers: Gov. Schwarzenegger vetoes AB 2386, secret ballot election...
We need to share some very disappointing news with you and then ask you to e-mail Gov. Schwarzenegger and let him know how you feel. Last week, the Governor vetoed AB 2386, a vital bill to reform...
View ArticleDay 20 of Hunger Strike for Immigration Reform: Sign the Pledge to Vote and...
Message from UFW Vice President Diana Tellefson:Today I proudly join the hunger strike for immigration reform. On October 15th, nearly 100 people began one of the largest hunger strikes in American...
View ArticleGOTV in North Carolina: Labor takes a lead
Never in a million years did I think I’d be spending Election Day 08 in North Carolina with the state a tossup. Though UNITE HERE has deep roots in the state, North Carolina has some of the lowest...
View ArticleAnd Now? (w/poll)
I know it’s hard to move on, but I really hope that in the months and weeks leading up to January 20th, this community will not focus its attention single-mindedly on every rumor of Obama cabinet...
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Stop Bush Admin. From Gutting Farm Worker Protections
E-Mail the Department of Labor TODAY!We expect the Bush administration’s Department of Labor to shortly announce new guestworker (H2A) regulations. These regulations, if adopted, will gut existing...
View ArticleWhy it is urgent for America to become equitable.
Today's economic problems make it clear to most Americans that regulation is a good thing. However, a diarist recently said: I don't get the urgent need for Unions"I'm looking for a union proponent...
View ArticleSpecter Undecided on Employee Free Choice Act
EFCA is a simple solution that is supported by a bipartisan coalition in Congress that includes Senator Bob Casey.Unfortunately, Senator Arlen Specter has not chosen which side he’s on. In an article...
View ArticleAsk President-Elect Obama not to let the outgoing Bush Admin Steal Farm...
The Bush Administration has released midnight regulation changes that make it easier for growers to slash the pay of domestic farm workers and hire imported foreign laborers instead of U.S. field...
View ArticleBanking Group Resort Rip Off of Taxpayers Exposed by Union, Causes Move
The Financial Services Roundtable spring meeting in Naples Florida at the Ritz Carlton Beach Resort, where rooms start at $530 per night, has been moved in response to a demand by Change to Win Chair...
View Article2008: 1st Significant Increase in Union Membership Since '83
(Crossposted at the Change to Win blog, CtW Connect)Remember how I told you a year ago that 2007 had seen the first increase in U.S. union membership since 1983?Well, America's workers haven't been...
View ArticleLabor urges denial of TARP funds to anti-union bank
Principal Financial Group, which bills itself as a global financial company, came under fire today from labor coalition Change to Win for applying for a portion of the TARP bailout when the firm has...
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