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Over 125 activists from across U.S. plot strategy for coordinated grassroots campaign to win single payer healthcare
Silver Spring, MD – More than 125 union leaders and activists from 25 states gathered at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, MD last weekend to strategize about next steps at the state and national level to win [...]
WHEREAS in the aftermath of the Massachusetts special senatorial election, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka issued a statement declaring, “It’s time to organize and mobilize as never before to make every elected or aspiring leader PROVE he or she will create the jobs we need in an economy we need with the healthcare we need. I [...]
Tags: Labor for Single Payer
The California Labor Federation Calls for a National March on Washington for Jobs, Peace, Affordable Healthcare for All And For an End to Foreclosures and Evictions
RESOLUTION SUBMITTED TO JAN. 11, 2010 DELEGATES MEETING OF THE SF LABOR COUNCIL
Building the March 4 Strike/Day of Action in Defense of Public Education and all Public Sector Services
Whereas, a powerful labor-student-faculty coalition to defend public education has formed statewide in the aftermath of the Sept. 24, 2009, 5,000-person-strong mass student walkout and university workers’ [...]
National March on Washington for Jobs, Peace, Affordable Health Care For All and Ending Foreclosures and Evictions
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For nearly a decade, CFA has criticized the CSU Chancellor and the Board of Trustees for their failure to fight for the system or to challenge the political status quo that is threatening its vitality and its very future. Instead, we have seen quiet acceptance of every cut and public assurances that the CSU can [...]
The following resolution, presented by Plumbers and Fitters Local 393, was passed by unanimous vote at the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council in San Jose, California on Monday 11/16/09.
National March on Washington for Jobs, Peace, Affordable Healthcare For All
and Ending Foreclosures and Evictions
Whereas, despite the so-called economic recovery, the economic crisis for working people has [...]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/23/AR2009112304092.html
Blacks hit hard by economy’s punch
34.5 percent of young African American men are unemployed
Unemployment skyrockets for young African Americans
The nation’s rising unemployment has afflicted young African Americans at greater rates than any other socioeconomic group, reaching Great Depression proportions and accelerating a reversal of hard-won economic gains of the 1990s.
By V. Dion Haynes
Washington Post Staff [...]
Tags: African American, unemployment
Report: Foreclosure Crisis Hits Blacks, LatinosBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: November 17, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/17/business/AP-US-Foreclosures-Minorities.html
Filed at 12:52 a.m. ET
NEW YORK (AP) — Black and Latinos are at a disproportionate risk in the ongoing foreclosure crisis because they are more likely than whites to have higher-cost mortgage loans and face higher unemployment rates, a report says.
The report from the [...]
Tags: African American, Foreclosures, Hispanic
Michael Moore Blasts House Healthcare Bill
Tags: Michael Moore