AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Obama Signs Jobs Bill

Just hours after the House put finishing touches on a state aid/jobs bill that will prevent the layoffs of hundreds of thousands of teachers, public employees, police officers and firefighters in cash strapped states, President Obama …

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AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | 31000 Deliver Message to Wall Street: Fix The …

Stop acting like what happened to our economy was some kind of accident, like a meteor fell on us . Take some responsibility for what you did. Call off the lobbyists. Second-Stop speculating and start lending. We bailed you out, …

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AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Short-Term Jobless Aid Breaks Republican …

Isn’t that what Obama wants as you blindly support his failed policies? It sure is good to see that $787 billion stimulus money keep unemployment below 8% as promised……not to mention the $434 billion supplemental. What next? …

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AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Study: Union Construction Jobs Help Economy

With state economies across the country in a tailspin, union construction wages helped boost Massachusetts’ economy . At the same time, nonunion construction workers added to the state’s social and economic costs. Nonunion construction workers have … Space Coast Workers Anxious Ahead Obama’s Speech Today On NASA’s Future (PBP). UAW President Ron Gettelfinger Said Wednesday That Many Americans Still Want To Join Unions But U.S. Laws Make It Difficult To Organize. (DFP) …

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AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Wall Street's Russian Roulette Isn't the …

In the U.S. the remaining icapitalist nvestors looked for the most profitable way to maximize profit, (return on investment). By investing in the least labor intensive economic activities, that minimized jobs creation (eliminating high …

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AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Join Us and Make Wall Street Pay

Starting today, the union movement and our allies are taking our fight for good jobs now to the biggest Wall Street banks whose reckless greed has gone a long way to wreck the U.S. economy and kill American jobs. …

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AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Economic Crisis Hitting Young Workers Hard

A whole generation of workers is being denied the opportunity to gain a foothold in the U.S. economy . We need real jobs with benefits. We need health care reform so millions of young workers will be protected if they get sick. …

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AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Job Creation Key to Ending Economic Crisis

Now it’s time for all of us to get busy and work together to bring the big changes that are essential-starting with enacting a jobs bill that is big enough to create jobs for the millions of people who want to work and can’t find jobs. …

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AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | The Working Class Has Spoken. Will Democrats …

And as AFL-CIO Richard Trumka has pointed out, Massachusetts voters have the same goals for reforming health care, creating good jobs and strengthening the economy as they did in November 2008—but President Obama and the Democrats have done too little. … I think we should start all over and fight for what we actually want — a single payer system like Canada’s — not what the insurance-industry-owned US Senate is willing to give us . I also think it’s way past time for …

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AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Trumka: Massachusetts Voters Say Democrats …

If 10.2% are unemployed and 17% are underemployed, then one does not need to be Paul Krugman, Ben Bernanke or a staff economist at a Washington think tank to realize that the U.S. economy is not firing on all cylinders. …

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