June 29, 2011 by Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher More than two million American construction workers — nearly one in five — are currently unemployed. Factories that produce building materials are operating at only half their capacity. So when a private company proposes a project that it claims will spur the creation of 118,000 new… Read More »
LABOR VS. THE WAR: THE IRAQ MORATORIUM
May 13, 2011 One of the memorable images of the Vietnam war era was a news photo of hard-hatted construction workers beating up peace demonstrators near a New York construction site. The AFL-CIO was one of the leading supporters of the war. Although by the late 1960s working class communities prompted in part by… Read More »
CITING JOBS AND ENVIRONMENT, MORE UNIONS BACKING EPA
April 21, 2011 At the start of 2011, as the energy corporations, the US Chamber of Commerce, and the Tea Party right launched their assault on environmental protection and the EPA, it looked like public opinion and organized labor might just be swept along. Instead, much of the public and the labor movement have… Read More »
NEW STUDY REVEALS THE BENEFITS OF EPA REGULATION FOR LABOR
February 9, 2011 You can hear the echo chamber reverberate the talking points: The Independent Petroleum Association of America complains that drilling permits and pollution are curbing job growth. The head of the National Association of Manufacturers and the governor of Virginia write a joint article called “Proposed EPA rules could hurt job… Read More »
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