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The Backus Federation of Nurses at Backus Hospital, Norwich, Conn., have secured their first collective bargaining contract which includes safe working provisions as well as professional and economic standards. These provisions will help to recruit and retain experienced RNs, AFT Connecticut announc...
Move over Baron Munchhausen,your place at the top of the world,s greatest liar list has just been downgraded.
Mitt the Panderer just won the competition outright.!
Does anyone believe anything that this morally bankrupt rich man says.?
Is anyone that stupid?
Obama in 2012!!!...
I took action at Verizon's greed by switching to another carrier. A company behaving this way doesn't get my business....
A new and growing movement called Unite Against the War on Women is mobilizing to push back on measure like this, with protest marches and rallies across the country on Saturday, April 28.
UNITE Women is saying, “Enough is enough,” and is mobilizing women and men to push back, according to Karen Teegarden, founder of the new organization.
I recently saw the article about the music video that UFCW 400 did about unionism in the Union City newsletter. It was a great video with a great message that got me thinking...
Being a part of IATSE I know mostly about unions related to entertainment and wonder whether these unions (IATSE, AGMA, AGVA, AFM, Actor's Equity, CWA, NFL Players, Writers Guild, SAG/AFTRA, and so on.
A couple of weeks back I made bried mention of a new book that has now been released. It is titled "Judas Times Seven" and, although technically a novel, it provides a modicum for restorning some fairness within today's workplace. In the story Bruce, a middle-aged data entry operator, is moving well through his new job with a cheeful attitude in achieving goals and friendships.
Boehner can stop this bill but thank god we have only a few more months left of him and the teabaggers. It is with the greatest pleasure to vote them all out and make sure they never comeback.
In his book Scraping By, Seth Rockman identifies that the position held by contemporary Americans concerned with economic social justice is neither radical nor progressive. Rockman examines the history of the early Republic, in particular the City of Baltimore, thereby revealing the political-economic tension between those who controlled capital, those who contracted their labor or the labor of their slaves, and how said tension was mitigated.
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I would like to inform all of those concerned about working men and women in this country about a new book which should be released shortly. It is titled "Judas Times Seven" and exposes what I refer to as the dark side of office politics. It it a story of greed, betrayal and jealousy which tells the story of a man who is happy to be working again following a period of disability.
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