The women have made over the past decades labor force participation, wages and access to more lucrative positions have strengthened their position in American workforce. ..…

According to an AFL-CIO report in 2008 that investigated maquiladoras in Guatemala, there is widespread sexual violence against women workers, common use of child labor, various forms of anti-union intimidation and violence, blacklists and mass firings, and a general failure to comply with basic..…

Among the guests were executives from Costco, Weyerhaeuser, and Amazon com all eager to show Chinese their appreciation for his efforts in providing American businesses with ample supply of labor, currency exchange and affable investment climate.. ..…

Murolo: I thoroughly disliked reading history until the early 1970s, when I discovered labor history and African American history, neither of which got any coverage in my history classes in high school. ... Murolo: This has always been a monumental issue for the American..…

The action had more the aspect of an ethnic cleansing than the settlement of a labor dispute. Who defines who is American? It’s one of the longest-running unanswered questions in U.S. history. . ..…

This is understandable given the enormous retreat of the labor movement in recent decades. ... The American working class has a rich tradition of struggle over the past 150 years. ..…

According to Ohio AFL-CIO President Tim Burga, AFL-CIO is investing more resources including greater efforts to get out African-American vote in Cleveland area.. In his address to the convention, Brown enumerated the accomplishments of labor, U.S history and here Ohio, especially the..…

Gonzales, lawyer who has served Bush for nearly decade and would become Hispanic attorney in the nation's history.. ..…

In yesterday, Supreme Court rebuffed Holocaust survivor's bid to sue German government for actions by Nazis during World War II in taking him captive and forcing him into slave labor at concentration camps.. Hugo Princz of Highland Park, N.J., American Jew who lived with his family in..…

Addressing the exact motion under consideration, that the harbors, ports, roads, and railroads of the country could not be what they are and so, in very real way, American Dream had fact come at the expense of American Negro.. By my labor and my sweat and the violation of my..…

By employers and politicians who were beginning to taste the wealth and power that came with, Local 1422, force on the waterfront and in both the movement and African American community, was bound to be targeted South Carolina's and Charleston's economic revival. THE CONTINUITY that Riley..…

No strikes, no disobedience, the perfect labor force. A lot of the American Industrial Revolution in the late 19th, early 20th Century was based on that. ... “They have been re-criminalized and turned into a slave labor force — that’s prison labor,” Chomsky..…

The data sources used here are Current Population Survey and American Time Use Survey, both administered by Census Bureau for Bureau of Labor Statistics.. ... Weeden, Overwork and Slow Convergence in Gender Gap Wages, American Sociological Review, forthcoming ↩. ..…

The analysis is based on data from Current Population Survey and American Time Use Survey, both administered by Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. ..…

Like most labor unions in United States, American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association ago abandoned the militance that marked their beginnings and embraced the union model, focusing on wages and benefits, forming partnerships with management, and ignoring issues of..…

Support for the strikers and the boycott has gained national support beyond coordinated actions around the country, as the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) national, representing 12 million members, has endorsed the boycott. . . ..…

At its national convention in Chicago, held in 1884, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions (which later became the American Federation of Labor), proclaimed that “eight hours shall constitute a legal day’s labor from and after May 1, 1886.” ..…

*South Central Federation of Labor (representing 94 labor organizations) 30,000 members . *American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) national, 12 million members . ..…

Labor protests helped heighten the sense of emergency early in 1935, and they were not the inspiration of the reformers. American Dreamers contains not reference to Walter and Victor Reuther, who courageously both opposed Communists and made United Auto Workers one of the strongest..…

Early in 2003 a number of trade unionists convened in Chicago a new organization to be called US Labor Against the War. Two African-American colleagues from Youngstown and I journeyed thither by Greyhound bus. ..…

You see that the justification for war the control over labor and resources--but claims about liberating people from tyranny, spreading American values and showing American in the world.. ..…

In John worked John Shattuck worked in and John Hanford now works in, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor you will find some of the most dedicated, talented people you'll ever find in American Foreign Service establishment. ..…

Grass-roots opposition to immigration plays a smaller role in American politics than it did a century ago, and the labor movement has recently switched sides—the AFL-CIO concluded last year that it should try to organize immigrants rather than reduce their numbers. . ... The losers are..…

Nearly four-in-ten are African-American and 14% are Hispanic. Not very well educated. Pro-labor union. Largest group of single mothers. . MEDIA HABITS: One-in-four (23%) watch daytime talk shows like Jerry Springer. . ..…

It has relationship with organized labor and unions have been source of funding for the group, according to Center for Public Integrity analysis of filings with Department of Labor.. Ten labor groups combined to America Votes more including $810,000 from American Federation of..…