AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | BushWatch: Job Safety and Health Took Big Hits
If there was any doubt whom he served, Bush erased that when he ended decades of practice and refused to name union representatives to serve on job-safety study and advisory groups, which also include academic, professional and management representatives
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
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Monday, January 12, 2009
Harold Pinter unraveled the ‘Tapestry of Lies’
Harold Pinter unraveled the ‘Tapestry of Lies’
Harold Pinter, Nobel-prize-winning British playwright, died of cancer on Dec. 24 at the age of 78.
Pinter was regarded as the foremost representative of British drama in the second half of the 20th century, but his 29 plays, numerous screenplays, prose and poetry made the British bourgeoisie uncomfortable.
Pinter’s plays and poetry exposed hypocrisy, corruption and viciousness. As one of his characters said, “The present is truly unscrupulous.” [“No Man’s Land,” 1975]
An outspoken critic of imperialism, Pinter spoke against the Gulf War, the invasion and breakup of Yugoslavia and the war on Iraq. At a conference on the Balkans in 2000, one year after NATO’s “humanitarian bombing” of Yugoslavia, Pinter said, “The United States has opened up the way for ... more ‘humanitarian intervention’, more demonstrations of its total indifference to the fate of thousands upon thousands of people.” (haroldpinter.org)
Harold Pinter, Nobel-prize-winning British playwright, died of cancer on Dec. 24 at the age of 78.
Pinter was regarded as the foremost representative of British drama in the second half of the 20th century, but his 29 plays, numerous screenplays, prose and poetry made the British bourgeoisie uncomfortable.
Pinter’s plays and poetry exposed hypocrisy, corruption and viciousness. As one of his characters said, “The present is truly unscrupulous.” [“No Man’s Land,” 1975]
An outspoken critic of imperialism, Pinter spoke against the Gulf War, the invasion and breakup of Yugoslavia and the war on Iraq. At a conference on the Balkans in 2000, one year after NATO’s “humanitarian bombing” of Yugoslavia, Pinter said, “The United States has opened up the way for ... more ‘humanitarian intervention’, more demonstrations of its total indifference to the fate of thousands upon thousands of people.” (haroldpinter.org)
Renegotiate NAFTA!
Renegotiate NAFTA!
In the fifteen years since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was established, the flow of goods across national borders has increased and the profits of multinational corporations have been augmented. However, the social and economic costs to the majority of North Americans have been considerable.
In the fifteen years since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was established, the flow of goods across national borders has increased and the profits of multinational corporations have been augmented. However, the social and economic costs to the majority of North Americans have been considerable.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
What Is the Employee Free
Choice Act?The System for Forming
Unions is BrokenWhy Workers Need the
Freedom to Form Unions
and BargainRead TestimonyCampaign ToolsYour Rights@WorkVideosAmerican Rights at Work
News Clips
Labor renews push for agenda - 2008 Presidential Campaign Blog - Political Intelligence - Boston.com
Hotline On Call: AFL-CIO Survey: 73% Support Employee Free Choice
Beat the Press Archive | The American Prospect
More News >>
Executive PayWatch
AFL-CIO >> Join a Union >> Voice@Work >> Employee Free Choice Act
10 Key Facts America’s workers want to form unions. Research shows nearly 60 million would form a union tomorrow if given the chance.
Too few ever get that chance because employers routinely block their efforts to form unions—and our current legal system is too broken to stop them. As many as one-quarter of employers illegally fire workers who try to form unions.
The Employee Free Choice Act would give workers a fair chance to form unions to improve their lives by:
Allowing them to form unions by signing cards authorizing union representation.
Providing mediation and arbitration for first-contract disputes (PDF).
Establishing stronger penalties for violation of employee rights when workers seek to form a union and during first-contract negotiations.
In the 110th Congress, the Employee Free Choice Act had widespread support.
More than three-quarters of Americans—77 percent—support strong laws that give employees the freedom to make their own choice about whether to have a union in their workplace without interference from management (PDF).
Allowing working people to choose for themselves whether to have a union is the key step toward rebuilding America’s middle class. Union membership brings better wages and benefits and a real voice on the job (PDF). It’s no accident that the 25-year decline in workers’ wages in our country has paralleled a 25-year slide in the size of the America’s unions.
The Employee Free Choice Act would put democracy back into the workplace. Majority sign-up would ensure the decision whether to form a union was made by majority choice, not by the employer unilaterally.
Workers can still vote under the Employee Free Choice Act. At any time, if 30 percent of the workers want an election, they can have one. And once they have a union, workers also vote to elect their union representatives.
The Employee Free Choice Act has the support of hundreds of respected organizations and individuals—major religious denominations, academics and civil and human rights groups and others.
The AFL-CIO union movement is working in many ways to restore good jobs, health care and retirement security—but passing the Employee Free Choice Act is our top priority because we cannot create balance for working people or rebuild the middle class unless workers genuinely have the freedom to form unions for a better life.
TAKE ACTION
Million-Member Mobilization
Educate members using the "Mobilizing a Million Members for the Employee Free Choice Act" toolkit.
Join the campaign to support Employee Free Choice.
E-MAIL ALERTSign up for action alerts & news.
Update your e-mail.
WHO IS
HEAR FROM WORKERSGET MATERIALS LINK TO THIS PAGETHE UNIONSHOP ONLINE
Employee Free Choice Act button,
$1.
E-MAIL THIS PAGEE-mail this page to a friend.
Copyright © 2009 AFL-CIO | American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations
Choice Act?The System for Forming
Unions is BrokenWhy Workers Need the
Freedom to Form Unions
and BargainRead TestimonyCampaign ToolsYour Rights@WorkVideosAmerican Rights at Work
News Clips
Labor renews push for agenda - 2008 Presidential Campaign Blog - Political Intelligence - Boston.com
Hotline On Call: AFL-CIO Survey: 73% Support Employee Free Choice
Beat the Press Archive | The American Prospect
More News >>
Executive PayWatch
AFL-CIO >> Join a Union >> Voice@Work >> Employee Free Choice Act
10 Key Facts America’s workers want to form unions. Research shows nearly 60 million would form a union tomorrow if given the chance.
Too few ever get that chance because employers routinely block their efforts to form unions—and our current legal system is too broken to stop them. As many as one-quarter of employers illegally fire workers who try to form unions.
The Employee Free Choice Act would give workers a fair chance to form unions to improve their lives by:
Allowing them to form unions by signing cards authorizing union representation.
Providing mediation and arbitration for first-contract disputes (PDF).
Establishing stronger penalties for violation of employee rights when workers seek to form a union and during first-contract negotiations.
In the 110th Congress, the Employee Free Choice Act had widespread support.
More than three-quarters of Americans—77 percent—support strong laws that give employees the freedom to make their own choice about whether to have a union in their workplace without interference from management (PDF).
Allowing working people to choose for themselves whether to have a union is the key step toward rebuilding America’s middle class. Union membership brings better wages and benefits and a real voice on the job (PDF). It’s no accident that the 25-year decline in workers’ wages in our country has paralleled a 25-year slide in the size of the America’s unions.
The Employee Free Choice Act would put democracy back into the workplace. Majority sign-up would ensure the decision whether to form a union was made by majority choice, not by the employer unilaterally.
Workers can still vote under the Employee Free Choice Act. At any time, if 30 percent of the workers want an election, they can have one. And once they have a union, workers also vote to elect their union representatives.
The Employee Free Choice Act has the support of hundreds of respected organizations and individuals—major religious denominations, academics and civil and human rights groups and others.
The AFL-CIO union movement is working in many ways to restore good jobs, health care and retirement security—but passing the Employee Free Choice Act is our top priority because we cannot create balance for working people or rebuild the middle class unless workers genuinely have the freedom to form unions for a better life.
TAKE ACTION
Million-Member Mobilization
Educate members using the "Mobilizing a Million Members for the Employee Free Choice Act" toolkit.
Join the campaign to support Employee Free Choice.
E-MAIL ALERTSign up for action alerts & news.
Update your e-mail.
WHO IS
HEAR FROM WORKERSGET MATERIALS LINK TO THIS PAGETHE UNIONSHOP ONLINE
Employee Free Choice Act button,
$1.
E-MAIL THIS PAGEE-mail this page to a friend.
Copyright © 2009 AFL-CIO | American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations
What Is the Employee Free
Choice Act?The System for Forming
Unions is BrokenWhy Workers Need the
Freedom to Form Unions
and BargainRead TestimonyCampaign ToolsYour Rights@WorkVideosAmerican Rights at Work
News Clips
Labor renews push for agenda - 2008 Presidential Campaign Blog - Political Intelligence - Boston.com
Hotline On Call: AFL-CIO Survey: 73% Support Employee Free Choice
Beat the Press Archive | The American Prospect
More News >>
Executive PayWatch
AFL-CIO >> Join a Union >> Voice@Work >> Employee Free Choice Act
10 Key Facts America’s workers want to form unions. Research shows nearly 60 million would form a union tomorrow if given the chance.
Too few ever get that chance because employers routinely block their efforts to form unions—and our current legal system is too broken to stop them. As many as one-quarter of employers illegally fire workers who try to form unions.
The Employee Free Choice Act would give workers a fair chance to form unions to improve their lives by:
Allowing them to form unions by signing cards authorizing union representation.
Providing mediation and arbitration for first-contract disputes (PDF).
Establishing stronger penalties for violation of employee rights when workers seek to form a union and during first-contract negotiations.
In the 110th Congress, the Employee Free Choice Act had widespread support.
More than three-quarters of Americans—77 percent—support strong laws that give employees the freedom to make their own choice about whether to have a union in their workplace without interference from management (PDF).
Allowing working people to choose for themselves whether to have a union is the key step toward rebuilding America’s middle class. Union membership brings better wages and benefits and a real voice on the job (PDF). It’s no accident that the 25-year decline in workers’ wages in our country has paralleled a 25-year slide in the size of the America’s unions.
The Employee Free Choice Act would put democracy back into the workplace. Majority sign-up would ensure the decision whether to form a union was made by majority choice, not by the employer unilaterally.
Workers can still vote under the Employee Free Choice Act. At any time, if 30 percent of the workers want an election, they can have one. And once they have a union, workers also vote to elect their union representatives.
The Employee Free Choice Act has the support of hundreds of respected organizations and individuals—major religious denominations, academics and civil and human rights groups and others.
The AFL-CIO union movement is working in many ways to restore good jobs, health care and retirement security—but passing the Employee Free Choice Act is our top priority because we cannot create balance for working people or rebuild the middle class unless workers genuinely have the freedom to form unions for a better life.
TAKE ACTION
Million-Member Mobilization
Educate members using the "Mobilizing a Million Members for the Employee Free Choice Act" toolkit.
Join the campaign to support Employee Free Choice.
E-MAIL ALERTSign up for action alerts & news.
Update your e-mail.
WHO IS
HEAR FROM WORKERSGET MATERIALS LINK TO THIS PAGETHE UNIONSHOP ONLINE
Employee Free Choice Act button,
$1.
E-MAIL THIS PAGEE-mail this page to a friend.
Copyright © 2009 AFL-CIO | American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations
Choice Act?The System for Forming
Unions is BrokenWhy Workers Need the
Freedom to Form Unions
and BargainRead TestimonyCampaign ToolsYour Rights@WorkVideosAmerican Rights at Work
News Clips
Labor renews push for agenda - 2008 Presidential Campaign Blog - Political Intelligence - Boston.com
Hotline On Call: AFL-CIO Survey: 73% Support Employee Free Choice
Beat the Press Archive | The American Prospect
More News >>
Executive PayWatch
AFL-CIO >> Join a Union >> Voice@Work >> Employee Free Choice Act
10 Key Facts America’s workers want to form unions. Research shows nearly 60 million would form a union tomorrow if given the chance.
Too few ever get that chance because employers routinely block their efforts to form unions—and our current legal system is too broken to stop them. As many as one-quarter of employers illegally fire workers who try to form unions.
The Employee Free Choice Act would give workers a fair chance to form unions to improve their lives by:
Allowing them to form unions by signing cards authorizing union representation.
Providing mediation and arbitration for first-contract disputes (PDF).
Establishing stronger penalties for violation of employee rights when workers seek to form a union and during first-contract negotiations.
In the 110th Congress, the Employee Free Choice Act had widespread support.
More than three-quarters of Americans—77 percent—support strong laws that give employees the freedom to make their own choice about whether to have a union in their workplace without interference from management (PDF).
Allowing working people to choose for themselves whether to have a union is the key step toward rebuilding America’s middle class. Union membership brings better wages and benefits and a real voice on the job (PDF). It’s no accident that the 25-year decline in workers’ wages in our country has paralleled a 25-year slide in the size of the America’s unions.
The Employee Free Choice Act would put democracy back into the workplace. Majority sign-up would ensure the decision whether to form a union was made by majority choice, not by the employer unilaterally.
Workers can still vote under the Employee Free Choice Act. At any time, if 30 percent of the workers want an election, they can have one. And once they have a union, workers also vote to elect their union representatives.
The Employee Free Choice Act has the support of hundreds of respected organizations and individuals—major religious denominations, academics and civil and human rights groups and others.
The AFL-CIO union movement is working in many ways to restore good jobs, health care and retirement security—but passing the Employee Free Choice Act is our top priority because we cannot create balance for working people or rebuild the middle class unless workers genuinely have the freedom to form unions for a better life.
TAKE ACTION
Million-Member Mobilization
Educate members using the "Mobilizing a Million Members for the Employee Free Choice Act" toolkit.
Join the campaign to support Employee Free Choice.
E-MAIL ALERTSign up for action alerts & news.
Update your e-mail.
WHO IS
HEAR FROM WORKERSGET MATERIALS LINK TO THIS PAGETHE UNIONSHOP ONLINE
Employee Free Choice Act button,
$1.
E-MAIL THIS PAGEE-mail this page to a friend.
Copyright © 2009 AFL-CIO | American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
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