Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/policy/page/40/)
The current economic crash will last at least 18 months and gives the incoming Obama administration and the new Democratic-run Congress the opportunity to enact longer-term recovery measures, not just quick fixes, a panel of progressives said.
United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger is calling for quick government action to help the auto industry, its workers and retirees.
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.
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.
Barbara Ehrenreich, author of "Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America," "This Land is Their Land" and 13 other books, will be the featured speaker at the 25th anniversary celebration of the JOBS NOW Coalition.
On Saturday, the sixth anniversary of the plane crash that killed U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, union leaders and elected officials evoked the spirit of Minnesota\’s "labor senator" to rally members in the final days before Nov. 4.