Facing the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression, President Barack Obama took office at the lowest point of the Bush recession. From day one, Obama understood that a strong labor movement is the key to a successful recovery.
“If I become president of the United States, I will curb the practice we have in this country of giving union bosses an unfair advantage in contracting,” Romney said. “One of the first things that I will do – actually on Day One- is I will end the government’s favoritism towards unions in contracting on federal projects.
On April 20, 2012 the American Arbitration Association in New Your City tabulated the ballots cast on the ratification vote for the National BMWED agreement. There were a total of 13,826 total votes counted, 7,189 in favor of ratification and 6,623 opposed. There were 14 blank or voided ballots.
A Must Watch Video - For two hundred years Americans have been indoctrinated with a mythology created, imposed and sustained by a manipulating cabal: the financial elite that built its absolute control on the muscle and blood, good will, ignorance and credulity, of its citizenry.
Nearly 50 years after the birth control pill was introduced, opponents are still doing everything they can to block women's access to contraception. At a time when 99 percent of all sexually active women rely on birth control at some point, they want to make this basic health care controversial. How out of touch can they get.
The staggering level of wealth and income inequality has finally become a focal point of political discussion and action in the United States. A significant percentage of Union Leadership fits comfortably within the bottom half of the top one-percent. There are 57 union leaders on the AFL-CIO's Executive Council, representing nine million union members. Seventeen of the executive council's members - thirty-percent - were paid in excess of $300,000 in 2010. Most were presidents of craft unions (ten from the building trades) and two were from the public sector.
On Tuesday President Obama signed a bill that will make it harder for workers to form a union. This bill, the FAA Reauthorization Act, passed Congress last week despite an outcry from major unions. Dozens of House Democrats voted for it, as did most Democratic Senators.
February 2, 2012 - Today, the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division-IBT and the National Carriers’ Conference Committee reached a tentative agreement settling all outstanding bargaining issues. The tentative agreement is subject to membership ratification. Details of the agreement will be distributed to the membership in accordance with the BMWED’s bylaws.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was not assassinated at a rally organized by a right-wing talk radio host, or at the inauguration of a conservative Republican governor.
King, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning campaigner for economic and social justice whose legacy we celebrate with a holiday that falls on Jan.
