Grijalva: I will not support it

When a crisis faces our nation, and decisions have to be made, we look to our elected officials to provide the guidance and direction that will help us persevere.  In the face of this manufactured debt ceiling crisis, many Members of Congress have failed to lead and are willing to substantially weaken many of the [...]

Parents and teachers march for public schools

By Duane Campbell An estimated 2000 – 3,000  parents, teachers, and public education supporters marched in Washington, D.C. and in  eleven  support rallies in other cities including Sacramento, California  on July 30. The events were organized by parent groups and other pro public education groups and supported by teachers unions.  The rally, although small by [...]

Medicare cuts are not acceptable !

by Duane Campbell The Alliance for Retired Americans, affiliated with the AFL-CIO and some twenty unions, held a Town Hall Meeting on the Crisis in Social Security Funding today in in the Rancho Cordova (Sacramento,) California district of U.S. Congressman Dan Lungren. Some 80 people turned out to analyze the attacks on social security and [...]

Under Student Pressure, Sodexo Agrees to Pay Ithaca College Dining Workers a Living Wage

by Chris Zivalich After a year-long intensive campaign, Ithaca College’s dining hall workers, employed by the multinational corporation Sodexo, will be paid a living wage during the 2011-2012 academic year, and will continue to be compensated at an adequate salary as calculated by Ithaca’s Alternatives Federal Credit Union for each subsequent year. Our successful endeavor [...]

Save Our Schools March !

by Duane Campbell Parents, teachers  and families from around the country say they are fed up with so-called school  “reform” policies that falsely label more than 80% of U.S. public schools as failures.  A  coalition of individuals and organizations is mobilizing for a national day of action in support of public schools. 
  
On Saturday, July 30, [...]

California schools in crisis, Unions lead the fight back

by Duane Campbell The financial crisis is hitting most of the nation’s public schools including those in most states- particularly California, Texas, New York, Illinois, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Florida,  and others.   In California as of 2011, 30,000 teaches have already been laid  off as federal stimulus money runs out, and another 15,000 face possible [...]

Obama vs. the Democrats

By Jack Rasmus Today, Friday July 22, Obama and House majority leader, Boehner, are reportedly about to agree to a $3 trillion spending cuts only deal. Their original agreement earlier this month, which blew up due to Teapublican radicals’ opposition, called for a $4 trillion combined package of $3 trillion in cuts with $1 trillion [...]

Walmart, Why?

by Harold Meyerson Joe Hansen says he’s “pissed,” and it’s no mystery why. Hansen, the president of the United Food and Commercial Workers, which represents the nation’s unionized supermarket workers, is dismayed that when first lady Michelle Obama met at the White House with representatives of retailers who have markets in underserved areas, Wal-Mart will [...]

AFL-CIO:‘Gang of Six’ Proposal Puts Deficit Reduction on Backs of Working People

by Mike Hall The so-called “Gang of Six” deficit reduction proposal is not the “shared sacrifice” its backers claim the plan contains, says AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka: Both parties keep telling us that deficit reduction requires “tough choices” and “shared sacrifice” and “taking on sacred cows.”  But then we keep seeing bipartisan support for plans [...]

The Congress Cancer and the Day of Action Against Hyatt

By Bob Roman The Congress Hotel strike has been going on for a long time. Some say it’s the third longest strike in United States history. It’s certainly the longest hotel strike in history. UNITE HERE Local 1 held its annual mass picket of the Congress Plaza Hotel on June 15 to commemorate (the union’s [...]