Archive for August 9th, 2006
AFL-CIO Partners with National Day Laborer Organizing Network
The AFL-CIO and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) have reached a historic partnership agreement that will pave the way for AFL-CIO central labor councils and state federations and NDLON’s day laborer worker centers to work together on issues ranging from workplace rights to immigration reform to health and safety and other job-related concerns.
Airlines Refuse to Share New Profits with Flight Attendants
On the website for Northwest Airlines, you will find all sorts of special offers to entice you to fly Northwest, including a “best fare guarantee.” Too bad the company’s management doesn’t see fit to give a “best pay guarantee” to its flight attendants.
The same is true for the newly combined US Airways and America West. Although the airline industry has taken a turn for the better, management is still trying to stiff its workers.
Nurses to NLRB: We’re Not Supervisors
In Chicago, nurses took to the streets yesterday—literally sitting down in the middle of a busy intersection—to highlight an issue that centers on an obscure government agency with the power to take away the freedom from millions of workers to form unions.
Voter Fraud Not the Problem. Opponents of Low-Income Voters Are
The speed with which Republican-controlled state legislatures around the country are rushing to pass voter ID laws makes it appear as though voter fraud is rampant. But that’s not the case, according to election experts.
CWA Members: New Degrees of Freedom with Queens College Program
In the photo, proud grads in caps and gowns are beaming as they hold their diplomas. You know at a glance this is their special day.
But what the photo can’t communicate is the connection among all the graduates: They’re all members of New York City area unions and have participated in one of the best higher-education benefits available to union members in the city: The Urban Leadership Program.
