Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2008/11/page/3/)
The 2008 election results, headlined by Democratic nominee Barack Obama\’s White House win, provide a mandate for changes to boost the lives of workers and their families, leaders of Change to Win said.
The election of Barack Obama as U.S. president brings new hope to America\’s working families and the opportunity to regain ground lost over the past eight years, union leaders said Tuesday night following the Democratic candidate\’s historic win.
Overwhelming support from unionists and their families became the "firewall" of votes that provided victory for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama in key swing states such as Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Minnesota, top AFL-CIO officials and their polling analyst said.
Passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, to help level the playing field between workers and bosses in union organizing and bargaining, will be labor\’s top priority in the new 111th Congress, top AFL-CIO officials said. But roadblocks remain for the legislation.
Some 160 members of Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers International Union Local 63B are in the second week of being locked out by Progress Casting Group, a Plymouth foundry.
What bitter irony. Studs Terkel, who gave voice to working people throughout his life, passed away Friday, just days before a potentially historic presidential election.
Much has been made during the presidential campaign of race being an issue voters – particularly white, blue-collar, male voters – are going to have to overcome if Barack Obama is to win Nov. 4.
In April, Washington County Commissioner Dennis Hegberg cast a key vote in favor of raising the county\’s sales tax a quarter-percent to fund transit investments across the metro area.
When people go to work sick, they jeopardize not only their own health, but that of co-workers, the businesses where they work and the public at large. That was the message by a broad coalition that rallied Friday in St. Paul.