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After nearly 40 years of serving steaks, chops and cocktails in West St. Paul, Caspers’ Cherokee Sirloin Room closed July 12. The restaurant had employed 24 members of UNITE HERE Local 17.
While Congress is on recess in August, 400,000 Americans will lose their health care coverage, according to the Center for American Progress.
Saying the economy is so deep in recession it needs another federal government financial jolt, the AFL-CIO Executive Council voted Tuesday for “a second installment” economic stimulus – even though a top Obama administration official told them, in so many words, “not just yet.”
A construction contractors association has become the latest employers group to break the business blockade and support the Employee Free Choice Act — even as key senators are sketching out a compromise that would get the legislation the 60 Senate votes it needs for passage.
Members of Local 13 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees have won a new three-year contract with the Children’s Theater Company in Minneapolis.
As President Obama held a primetime news conference on health care reform Wednesday, unions stepped up pressure on Congress to act. Next Tuesday, affiliates of the AFL-CIO will take part in a National Call-in Day for Health Care Reform.
The Labor Education Service is co-sponsoring a screening of "From Field to Factory: Sugar Beets, Trade and the Future of the Red River Valley" and a discussion with Mark Froemke, union leader and sugar beet worker, on Tuesday, July 28.
Arne Duncan wants to turn George W. Bush’s education law, the No Child Left Behind act upside-down — and the American Federation of Teachers likes that idea.
Top union leaders, headed by AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney and Change To Win Chair Anna Burger, discussed health care and the Employee Free Choice Act in a 45-minute closed-door meeting with Democratic President Barack Obama on July 13.
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is telling unionists they will have to go out and push for the Employee Free Choice Act, but with a promise of verbal support from the Obama administration.
