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August 24, 2010
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Recession’s Impact Pushes Job Fatalities Down in 2009
WASHINGTON (PAI)— The recession’s impact, cutting both the employed workforce and the number of hours worked, also pushed on-the-job fatalities down by 17% in 2009, to 4,340, from 5,214 the year before, the Labor Department reported.
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Laborers to Rejoin AFL-CIO
WASHINGTON (PAI)— Change To Win will lose yet another member on Oct. 1, when the Laborers rejoin the AFL-CIO. But in a sense, they never really left.
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Labor Trying to Mobilize the Jobless to Vote This Fall
UPPER MARLBORO, MD. (PAI)— Realizing today’s jobless workers are more numerous and different from those of past years, the Union of the Unemployed and Working America, using two different tacks, are trying to mobilize the jobless to vote this fall, in their own self-interest.
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BlueGreen Jobs Bus Tour Starts from L.A. with Political Message
COVINA, CALIF. (PAI)— With workers, union presidents and environmental leaders jumping on and off as it rolls across the country, a 3-week “BlueGreen Jobs Bus Tour” started from a Steelworkers hall in the Los Angeles suburb of Covina, Calif., on Aug. 16, carrying a distinctly sharp legislative -- and political -- message.
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Hotel Workers Demand Bank of America Save Their Jobs
WASHINGTON (PAI)— Chanting a detailed story that links bailouts for Bank of America with jobs for unionized hotel workers in Baltimore and Washington, approximately 100 people massed in front of the bank’s branch near the White House to demand the financial behemoth save the workers’ jobs.
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