Labor News for August 31, 2006

Headlines:

• AFL-CIO Will Run Largest Off-Year Voter Mobilization Campaign In Its History
• Change To Win: Survey Shows American Dream Slipping Away
• Workers Bring Justice At Smithfield Campaign To Shareholders Meeting
• Economic Report: Growth Slows To 2.9 Percent, Inflation Rises

Labor News August 30, 2006

Headlines:

• New Orleans "Largely In Ruins" One Year After Katrina
• UAW Maintains Health Care Benefits, Wins Raises At Freightliner
• Andy Stern: Growing Number of Uninsured "A Stain On This Country"
• Economic Report: Consumer Confidence At A Nine-Month Low

Labor News for August 29, 2006

Headlines:

• Nurses At Robert Wood Johnson Hospital Continue Strike Over Health Care
• Ohio Workers Locked Out Over Pensions and Health Care
• Hoboken Bus Drivers Plan To Strike Over OT Pay, Respect On The Job
• Economic Report: 2006 First Quarter Real Wages Still Not Growing

Labor News August 28, 2006

Headlines:

• Concrete workers back to work with contract agreement in Washington
• San Francisco hotel workers vote in favor of strike
• Norway pensions drop Wal-Mart
• After two years, FedEx and Pilots union reach agreement
• Two oil companies kicked out of Chad
• Economic Report: Gas prices decline, but still higher than a year ago

Labor new for August 25, 2006

Headlines:

• Northwest flight attendants could strike as early as 9:01 p.m.
• Two day municipal walkout in LA ends
• Economic Report: U.S. Arab and Muslim men wages slashed by 10 percent since September 11, 2001

Labor news for August 24, 2006

Headlines:

• U.S. Census prepares to release new numbers on healthcare and poverty
• L.A. municipal workers strike labor contract
• Thailand could face loss of 1 million jobs if U.S. duty-free trade status lifted
• Economic Report: Less U.S. workers taking summer vacations

Labor news for August 23, 2006

Headlines:

• California's largest labor association takes position on abortion
• Flight Attendants offer flight strike alerts to customers
• California set to receive minimum wage increase
• Economic Report: This week marks 10th anniversary of last federal minimum wage increase

Labor new for August 21, 2006

Headlines:

• Apple supplier audit criticized by labor union
• Wisconsin public utility seeks to end defined benefit pensions
• Forty-four NYC Starbucks shops cited for pests
• Female workplace fatalities at lowest level in 2005

Labor News August 18, 2006

Headlines:

• Big Win For Workers: Judge Upholds NW Flight Attendants' Right To Strike
• Delphi Gets Postponement of Bankruptcy Hearing Until September 18
• Conyers Universal Health Insurance Bill Picks Up More Support
• Economic Report: Hispanic Deaths On The Job Up By Two Percent

Labor News August 17, 2006

Headlines:

• CWA And AFSCME Launch Arizona State Workers Organizing Drive
• Iowa Nurses Strike Again - "Borderline Union Busting" Alleged
• Independent Steelworkers Union Wins Trade Battle On Tariffs
• AFL-CIO Joins Campaign For Faster, More Affordable Internet In U.S.
• Economic Report: Highway Construction Accidents Account for Most Workplace Fatalities

WIN Headlines for August 16, 2006

Headlines:

• Carpenters Union Celebrates 125th Anniversary
• Union Opposes NYC Manned Security Checkpoint Cutbacks
• Senator Edwards Urges Continental Tire To Respect Its Workers
• Economic Report: Young Worker Deaths At Work Increased in 2005

Labor News for August 15, 2006

Headlines:

• AMFA Returns To Bargaining Table At Northwest Airlines
• CHAOS In A Holding Pattern Amid Heightened Terrorism Security
• Oregon Nurses Fight For First Contract Under Decertification Threat
• AK Steel Workers’ New Union Talking With Company To End Lockout
• Economic Report: Consumer Price Index Considers Reporting Change

Headlines August 10, 2006

Headlines:

• AFL-CIO Partners With National Day Laborer Organizing Network
• Laborers Union Working To Organize California Construction Day Laborers
• Alarms Sound on Forest Service Plan To Outsource Firefighting Jobs
• Economic Report: Executive Pay Raises Drop, But Are Still Double Workers' Raises

Labor news for August 9, 2006

Headlines:

• Protesters Challenge "The Terminator's" Education Policies
• Is Delphi Bankruptcy Just a Planned Union and Pensions Dump?
• Court Deals Pensions Blow To Older IBM Workers

Workers Independent News Headlines August 8, 2006

Headlines:

* Starbucks Fires Union Activists, IWW Urges Starbucks Boycott
* New Orleans Announces New Plan to Fix Criminal Justice System
* USW: B.F. Goodrich Contract Bars Plant Closings and Sweetens Pensions
* Nurses on the March in Chicago
* Economic Report: Women Fed Up With Workplace Inequality & Health Care