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Action is finally being taken to try to win decent treatment for domestic workers worldwide.
- Added: Jul 14, 2011
- Length: 05:46
Farm workers have suffered a heavy blow in their drive to win union rights.
- Added: Jul 07, 2011
- Length: 04:03
Unions have mounted a drive against attempts by Ohio Gov. John Kasich to join Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in stripping public employees of their co...
- Added: Jul 01, 2011
- Length: 03:10
More than 40 percent of privately employed workers do not have the paid sick days they need to recover from their often contagious illnesses or car...
- Added: Jun 22, 2011
- Length: 04:51
President Bob King of the influential United Auto Workers union is calling for major reforms that would enable his union and others to strengthen u...
- Added: Jun 09, 2011
- Length: 04:57
A new study finds that unionization is a sure way to lessen the heavy toll of deaths and serious injuries in the nation's coal mines.
- Added: Jun 03, 2011
- Length: 03:23
Although the minimum wage law was originally designed to guarantee workers decent pay, it now promises them no more than poverty-level wages.
- Added: May 20, 2011
- Length: 03:16
The child labor laws that protect young workers from severe exploitation are under serious attack.
- Added: May 13, 2011
- Length: 04:55
The AFL-CIO is promising the launch a campaign to shrink the ever-widening pay gap between working people and major company CEOs, who averaged $11....
- Added: Apr 21, 2011
- Length: 05:36
It's time to increase the pay of America's poorest workers, time to raise the pitifully inadequate minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.
- Added: Apr 14, 2011
- Length: 03:43
The attempt by Wisconsin's governor to all but eliminate union rights of state employees is one of the most important labor developments in decades.
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- Added: Feb 23, 2011
- Length: 05:02
- Purchases: 1
Politicians and others who caused our economic troubles are attempting to shift the blame to public employees, whose vital work benefits us all.
- Added: Feb 11, 2011
- Length: 05:45
In marking Ronald Reagan's centennial, don't forget he was one of the most viciously anti-labor presidents working Americans ever faced.
- Added: Jan 14, 2011
- Length: 06:02
U.S. employers are in effect stealing millions of dollars from their employees by underpaying them.
- Added: Dec 16, 2010
- Length: 03:19
Raising the minimum wage provides essential help to the poorest Americans while boosting the entire sagging economy.
- Added: Dec 02, 2010
- Length: 04:34
Republican members of Congress are trying to block President Obama's plan to modernize the country's crumbling infrastructure.
- Added: Nov 18, 2010
- Length: 03:14
Democrats and their allies, particularly organized labor, who lost big in the midterm elections, are facing major contests with Republicans in the ...
- Added: Nov 05, 2010
- Length: 05:31
New census figures show that women workers, despite lagging behind men in earnings generally, are doing much better than men among higher paid work...
- Added: Oct 29, 2010
- Length: 03:07
Organized labor is facing a major election challenge in California that's certain to have a major impact on unions and anti-union forces everywhere.
- Added: Oct 21, 2010
- Length: 03:51
It's a perfect match: unions need new members if they are to grow, and young workers need to join unions if they are to improve what's been their s...
- Added: Oct 14, 2010
- Length: 03:03
An AFL-CIO report shows that many of those who rescued victims of the 9/11 attacks are still suffering from serious injuries and illnesses.
- Added: Sep 17, 2010
- Length: 04:13
The AFL-CIO has begun a drive to recruit young workers to grow and strengthen the labor movement.
- Added: Sep 09, 2010
- Length: 03:10
Labor Day is a good time to honor the invaluable but much maligned public employees.
- Added: Sep 03, 2010
- Length: 03:44
Republican leaders in Congress want to cut Social Security payments in order to reduce the deficit that's been caused in part by tax breaks for the...
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- Added: Aug 20, 2010
- Length: 03:21
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Labor and Democratic Party leaders worry that labor's rank and file may not provide Democratic candidates the support they'll need in November's el...
- Added: Aug 13, 2010
- Length: 03:05
