About 200 people, representing a diverse array of organizations and unions, marched in Miami on Tuesday to demand accountability from Bank of America and to support the Occupy Miami movement. The protest came on the same day the Bank of America announced it is dropping a controversial More…
Occupy Miami garnered public support from local unions today.
South Florida Jobs for Justice, together with local labor unions, held a press conference this morning announcing their support for Occupy Miami.
Gov. Mark Dayton said Tuesday that GOP hearings around whether he has the authority to order a vote on union representation for home child-care workers were a “political ploy” from a part-time legislature that’s already drawn out the session.
“I’m well aware of the legal parameters that are available, but that More…
Minnesotans for a Fair Economy plans to rally outside the downtown Minneapolis offices of Wells Fargo Wednesday, according to a notice the group released Tuesday. The “Piece of the Pie Rally” — to “dramatize the need for a ‘slice of the pie’ for ordinary citizens” and the unemployed — More…
The five big unions that represent the majority of Michigan’s 50,000 state workers will join forces to bargain with Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration, which is seeking $145 million in concessions.
LANSING — The Senate Committee on Reforms, Restructuring and Reinventing approved a resolution Wednesday morning that starts the process to revoke partner benefits for unmarried state workers.
The benefit plan was approved by the Michigan Civil Service Commission in January.
Republicans, led by Sen. Rick Jones (R-Grand Ledge), More…
A new independent Morning Call/Muhlenberg College Tracker poll has confirmed that Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) is now leading former Rep. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) by a razor-thin margin in Pennsylvania’s Senate race. The news that the Pennsylvania Senate race is tightening comes at the same time as reports from Colorado and More…
Members of the Socialist Party lined the tree-shaded walkway that guided tens of thousands of self-dubbed progressives and union members of all stripes to the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Passing out a newspaper with the headline, “Tax The Rich, End The Wars,” one eager party member More…
Immigrants rights groups promised to mobilize against Republicans who helped block reform efforts, and they threw their first punch today with a $300,000 ad buy on Spanish-language radio stations across the country. The ads will tie the GOP to anti-immigrant rhetoric and fear-mongering and will criticize the party More…
Jan Brewer’s gubernatorial campaign and the Arizona Republican party planned protests this week outside union offices to pressure them to end an economic boycott of the state. The United Food and Commercial Workers Union was boycotting Arizona in protest of its SB 1070 immigration law, but ended its boycott yesterday. More…
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