Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/uncategorized/page/477/)
A “Marshall Plan for the U.S. auto industry,” on a scale similar to U.S. aid to devastated Europe after World War II, was among the legislative priorities for Auto Worker delegates at their conference in Washington.
In an amazing display of arrogance and insensitivity, Homeland Security’s Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has stated that it would continue to impersonate OSHA officials in order to nab undocumented workers, according to Inside OSHA.
Stronger unions are needed to build a new, more-reliable retirement system for U.S. workers, Change to Win Chair Anna Burger says.
Unions are not always the most media-savvy organizations, but the Minnesota State Retirees Council is working to change that.
The rest of the world must adjust to the emergence of China and India as industrializing, demanding and growing societies, a new report says. And, in turn, China and India — who have 40 percent of the global population — must develop their economies without repeating the mistakes that the developed nations made.
Ford’s announcement that it will close 14 auto plants and lay off 25,000 to 30,000 workers by 2008 means a lot more to a lot more workers than just the Ford employees and their families.
A number of organizations and coalitions are sponsoring a March for Immigrants Rights Sunday, Feb. 12, at 2 p.m.
Union leaders eulogized civil rights leader Coretta Scott King, who died Jan. 31 at 78, as an activist for workers, minoritiies, the poor and those who faced discrimination and segregation.
The elected representatives of the Northwest pilots union, as represented by the Air Line Pilots Association(ALPA), voted unanimously to take a strike authorization vote. The exact timing of the ballot was left to the
discretion of Master Executive Council (MEC) Chairman Capt. Mark McClain.
As President Bush visited Minnesota Thursday to promote health savings accounts, a major health care union said his initiative further escalates America’s health care crisis by shifting the burden of increasing costs onto hard-working families.