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Senate Votes to Proceed with Health Care Debate

The Senate tonight voted 60-40 to open up debate on health care reform legislation, with Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) winning the 60 votes needed to pass the measure. Calling the vote “a critical and historic milestone in the march toward ...

From TULA CONNELL, AFL-CIO Blog,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  AFL-CIO,  Harry Reid,  Richard Trumka,  U.S. Democratic Party

Without Jobs, the Nation’s Future Circles the Drain

Last summer at an event in Ohio, I met a young woman who is facing this crisis head-on. Lacey, who is not yet 20 years old, wants to become a teacher. But after her dad’s factory closed and he was laid off, she had to put off her hopes of attending ...

From TULA CONNELL, AFL-CIO Blog,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: University of California,  Economic Policy Institute,  National Council of La Raza,  White House,  U.S. Congress

Join Tweet-a-Thon and Expose the Chamber of Commerce Friday

“U.S. Chamber of Greed” is a nice short tweet to start the day with a NotMyChamber Tweet-a-Thon. If you don’t use Twitter (and can understand nary a word of the previous paragraph), you can sign the “Not My Chamber” pledge here: www.notmychamber.org. ...

From TULA CONNELL, AFL-CIO Blog,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Nike,  Twitter Inc,  Johnson & Johnson,  PG&E,  AFL-CIO

The Rich Are Different. They Have Jobs

Wall Street doesn’t look back at the disaster it wrecked on Main Street. Goldman Sachs, one of the Wall Street firms that got the H1N1 flu shot well ahead of millions of America’s school children, sent this health tip in a memo to its pampered, ...

From TULA CONNELL, AFL-CIO Blog,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Goldman Sachs,  U.S. Senate,  Christopher Dodd,  U.S. Congress

U.S. Jobless Rate Shocking: 15.7 Million Workers Unemployed

Stunningly bad news on the nation’s jobless rate today: Unemployment worsened in October to 10.2 percent, a huge jump from 9.8 percent in September. That’s 15.7 million jobless workers, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Worse, the ...

From TULA CONNELL, AFL-CIO Blog,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Bureau of Labor Statistics,  White House,  Paul Krugman,  U.S. Congress

Arcane Labor Law Counts the Votes of Non-Voters

Imagine voting on a ballot initiative and knowing that everyone who didn’t show up at the polls still got to vote—because their votes would be counted as “No.” That’s the process for airline and railway workers when they vote on whether to join a union. ...

From TULA CONNELL, AFL-CIO Blog,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  George W. Bush,  National Mediation Board,  AFL-CIO,  U.S. Senate

Tanker Contract: Corporate Serfdom or Quality Jobs?

Corporate serf masters: same tactics, no matter what the century. In doing so, Republican Govs. Haley Barbour, Bobby Jindal and Bob Riley are seeking to pit worker against worker, North against South, as a ploy to cover what’s really at stake: ...

From TULA CONNELL, Firedoglake,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Haley Barbour,  U.S. Republican Party,  Bobby Jindal,  Bob Riley,  Boeing

Labor Across Prime Time TV

Prime time last night was well worth watching. The NewsHour on PBS profiled AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, and MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann hosted California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) Executive Director Rose Ann ...

From TULA CONNELL, AFL-CIO Blog,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: AFL-CIO,  PBS,  Richard Trumka,  MSNBC,  Keith Olbermann

$3.4 Billion Smart Grid Investment Will Create Tens of Thousands of Jobs

The nation needs jobs—big time. So it’s good to see that a $3.4 billion smart energy grid investment announced today by the Obama administration also will generate many new jobs. In addition to saving energy and empowering consumers to cut their ...

From TULA CONNELL, AFL-CIO Blog,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  AFL-CIO

China and the U.S. Housing Bubble

We often write about how China’s policy to devalue its currency, the yuan, has been a key factor in the U.S. trade deficit. It’s not an easy issue to grasp. But economist Paul Krugman devotes an entire column to explaining why China’s devalued currency ...

From TULA CONNELL, AFL-CIO Blog,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Paul Krugman,  AFL-CIO

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