Unions Are Necessary to Rebuilding Our Middle Class Center for American Progress Action Fund ...the decline in the unionization rate tracks almost perfectly with the decline in the share of income going to the middle class...
There were 3.5 Unemployed People per Job Opening in July 2012 Economic Populist ...People are clearly not voluntarily leaving their jobs because the job market is so bad, even though the jobs slaughter of 2009 where people were laid off and fired in mass appears to be over...
Chicago teachers strike talks 'at the brink' of a deal NBC News ...Following another marathon day of negotiations, school board President Dave Vitale and Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis emerged separately from the Hilton Chicago at around 1 a.m. Friday and said they were very close to a deal...
NYC bans big sugary drinks at eateries, theaters Associated Press ...New York City's Board of Health opened up a new, experimental front in the war on obesity Thursday, passing a rule banning sales of big sodas and other sugary drinks at restaurants, concession stands and other eateries...
Dairy workers strike in Md. Cumberland Times-News ...After nearly a day on strike, Teamster’s Local 453 hadn’t heard a word from Galliker’s/Potomac Farms Dairy, local president Larry Wolfe said Thursday...
Teamsters’ Hoffa on Tea Party’s `Cultural Revolution’ Bloomberg ...Organized labor is under attack because it’s the bullwark against a right-wing takeover of the United States, Teamsters President James Hoffa says...
