Tula Connell
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- September 26, 2008 - 11:11am
Before she became the first female Labor secretary in 1933, Frances Perkins had seen firsthand the tragedy of Manhattan’s 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire. Locked in by their employer, 146 mostly young girls died when they couldn’t escape the burning building where they toiled in sweatshop labor. Later, as the New York industrial commissioner, Perkins held employers accountable for workplace safety and health, expanding factory investigations and championing other pro-worker laws, like unemployment insurance.Now, imagine if Elaine Chao had been there instead.
- September 16, 2008 - 3:25pm
But the current crisis has long roots. America's working families have been suffering through what is now a generation-long stagnation of wages and rising economic insecurity. Steps must be taken immediately to shore up our flagging economy and provide much-needed assistance to working families.
- August 25, 2008 - 1:15pm
The issue of race in this presidential campaign is one we talk around, or whisper about, or don't discuss publicly at all. But AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka is taking the issue head on, confronting white union members who not embracing the idea of an African-American becoming president.
- August 11, 2008 - 9:00am
They may be party animals when chugging $8,204 worth of booze but, after the hangover is over, the staff at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce goes back to being their ugly anti-worker selves.
- July 2, 2008 - 3:41pm
George W. Bush's solution to our nation's economic mess—that his failed policies helped create—is to applaud people who must work three jobs to make ends meet.
- Commented Thanks for this, Isaiah! in a discussion on A Time To Demand a Stand With Workers (Blog entry) | June 26, 2008 - 2:42pm
- May 5, 2008 - 9:46am
Every day, most of us go to work and then come home. Next day: Rinse, repeat.
But some U.S. workers go to work and never come home.
In April 2005, Donald Wilcher Smith was one of them. The 22-year-old central Texas man was electrocuted at the Sanderson Farms processing plant.
- April 15, 2008 - 3:03pm
In August 2004, Hector Alino Martinez and three other Colombian trade unionists were dragged out of their homes and assassinated in the streets of Caño Seco. The men were among 96 unionists killed in Colombia that year.
- March 14, 2008 - 8:45am
What is it about teachers that reactionaries don't like?
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- September 26, 2008 - 11:11amBefore she became the first female Labor secretary in 1933, Frances Perkins had seen firsthand the tragedy of Manhattan’s 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire. Locked in by their employer, 146 mostly young girls died when they couldn’t escape the burning building where they toiled in sweatshop labor. Later, as the New York industrial commissioner, Perkins held employers accountable for workplace safety and health, expanding factory investigations and championing other pro-worker laws, like unemployment insurance.
Now, imagine if Elaine Chao had been there instead.
- September 16, 2008 - 3:25pm
But the current crisis has long roots. America's working families have been suffering through what is now a generation-long stagnation of wages and rising economic insecurity. Steps must be taken immediately to shore up our flagging economy and provide much-needed assistance to working families.
- August 25, 2008 - 1:15pm
The issue of race in this presidential campaign is one we talk around, or whisper about, or don't discuss publicly at all. But AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka is taking the issue head on, confronting white union members who not embracing the idea of an African-American becoming president.
- August 11, 2008 - 9:00am
They may be party animals when chugging $8,204 worth of booze but, after the hangover is over, the staff at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce goes back to being their ugly anti-worker selves.
- July 2, 2008 - 3:41pm
George W. Bush's solution to our nation's economic mess—that his failed policies helped create—is to applaud people who must work three jobs to make ends meet.
- May 5, 2008 - 9:46am
Every day, most of us go to work and then come home. Next day: Rinse, repeat.
But some U.S. workers go to work and never come home.
In April 2005, Donald Wilcher Smith was one of them. The 22-year-old central Texas man was electrocuted at the Sanderson Farms processing plant.
- April 15, 2008 - 3:03pm
In August 2004, Hector Alino Martinez and three other Colombian trade unionists were dragged out of their homes and assassinated in the streets of Caño Seco. The men were among 96 unionists killed in Colombia that year.
- March 14, 2008 - 8:45am
What is it about teachers that reactionaries don't like?
- February 22, 2008 - 3:04pm
The union movement is turning green. Not with envy, but with an escalating sense that the nation must work to address climate change and that we must be part of the effort to create good jobs that also are green jobs.
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- Commented Thanks for this, Isaiah! in a discussion on A Time To Demand a Stand With Workers (Blog entry) | June 26, 2008 - 2:42pm
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