WIN Labor News July 30, 2010

Headlines:
Majority On NYC City Council Support Fair Wage For New Yorkers Act- 07/30/10
UNITE-HERE Hyatt Workers In Monterey Reach New COntract Deal- 07/30/10
California Gov. Vetoes Bill Extending Overtime Protection To Farm Workers- 07/30/10
Austin, Texas Approves Required Water Breaks For Construction Workers- 07/30/10
Economic Report: Historic U.S. Jobs Crisis Won't End WIthout Big Changes In Economic Policy- 07/30/10

WIN Labor News July 29, 2010

Headlines:
Despite Federal Injunction Prayer Vigils And Rallies Will Go On Today To Protest Arizona Immigration Law- 07/29/10
As Jobless Workers Suffer, Corporations Sit On Enough Cash To Pay 2.4 million People $70K A Year For Five Years- 07/29/10
Detroit Gains A Few Thousand Jobs- 07/29/10

WIN Labor News July 28, 2010

Headlines:
States Not Getting Medicaid Federal Money They Need-AFSCME Says Jobs Will Be Lost Without It 07/28/10
SEIU, UNITE-HERE End Their Dispute- 07/28/10
Mott Strike In New York Enters Tenth Week- 07/28/10
Workers Held For Destroying Sacred Site Freed By Brazil Indians- 07/28/10

WIN Labor News July 27, 2010

Headlines:
AFL-CIO Says Congress Isn’t Hearing Workers On The Need For Jobs Creation, Workers Need To Raise Their Voices- 07/27/10
Six Hundred Chicago Teachers Laid Off With Hundreds More To Come- 07/27/10
California Labor Federation Calls For Mass Movement To Win A WPA-Style Jobs Program, Supports October 2nd March- 07/27/10

WIN Labor News July 26, 2010

Headlines:
Pension Funds Join In Class-Action Suit Against BP- 07/26/10
Washington Teacher's Union Battles Hundreds Of D.C. Firing- 07/26/10
Worker Describes Losing Her Job After 26 Years, Wants More Dignity For "Terminated" Workers- 07/26/10

WIN Labor News July 23, 2010

Headlines:
USW President Leo Gerard Calls For Re-Industrialization Of America And Transformation Of Trade Policies To Create Jobs- 07/23/10
UNITE-HERE Hotel Workers In Civil Disobedience Protests At Hyatt Hotels In Fifteen Cities- 07/23/10
Mine Safety Bill Clears House Committee- 07/23/10

WIN Labor News July 22, 2010

Headlines:
Has President Obama Betrayed American Workers on Jobs And Economic Policy?- 07/22/10
California Farm Workers Hope A Bill Passes Giving Them The Same Overtime Rights As Other Workers- 07/22/10
Evidence Jobless Americans Want To Work – 3000 Apply For 300 Openings At Indiana Chrysler Plant- 07/22/10

WIN Labor News July 21, 2010

Headlines:
USW, Los Mineros Wage Cross-Border Labor Struggle To Lift Mexican Worker Wages, Standards- 07/21/10
HUgo Boss Factory Reopens In Ohio- 07/21/10

WIN Labor News July 20, 2010

Headlines:
President Obama Calls On Republicans To Quit Holding Jobless Workers Hostage To Politics- 07/20/10
Despite Big Free Agency Spending, NBA Owners Press For Concessions From Players Union- 07/20/10
Economic Report: Economic Policy Favors Corporations Over Workers As Profits Recover While Jobs Don’t- 07/20/10

WIN Labor News July 19, 2010

Headlines:
Middle-Income U.S. Workers Ill Prepared For Retirement - 401(K)'s Are One Reason- 07/19/10
Protesters At A Wisconsin Taco Bell Allege Discrimination In Worker Firings- 07/19/10

WIN Labor News July 16, 2010

Headlines:
AFL-CIO Says Senate Financial Reform Vote Represents “Historic Shift” Of Power- 07/16/10
California Nurses Rally At GOP Governor Candidate Meg Whitman’s Home Protests Her Anti-Worker Corporate Agenda- 07/16/10
Health Care Reform Small Business Tax Credit Kicks In- 07/16/10

WIN Labor News July 15, 2010

Headlines:
Former Auto Workers File Class Action Discrimination Suit Against NUMMI, Toyota- 07/15/10
UAW Says It Will Be In The Streets Fighting For Social And Economic Justice- 07/15/10
Picketing Of Toyota Dealers Is Part Of A UAW Effort To Organize Toyota- 07/15/10

WIN Labor News July 14, 2010

Headlines:
ILWU California Port Strikers Are Back At The Bargaining Table In Fight To Save American Jobs- 07/14/10
AFL-CIO Launches Work Site Jobs Campaign In 23 States- 07/14/10
Mickey Mouse Has A Black Eye As Disney Workers Picket All Star Game- 07/14/10
Economic Report: U.S. Credit Scores Hit Hard By Recession- 07/14/10

Labor Report: July 13, 2010

Headlines:
Social Security exemption may have helped hiring
Banana workers end 10 day strike in Panama
Ohio jobless hope for end to Senate's unemployment gridlock

Labor Radio: July 12, 2010

Headlines:
Kentucky announces furlough days
NLRB rules in favor of workers fired at Blackstone Hotel
BP threatening to fire workers who wear respirators
Oklahoma plans labor festival

WIN Labor News July 9, 2010

Headlines:
Seafarers International Union VP: A Union On Deep Water Horizon May Have Averted Gulf Tragedy- 07/09/10
More U.S. Jobs Cut As Merck Closes Facilities Worldwide- 07/09/10
CEPR Says American Workers Are Enduring Longest, Highest Unemployment Since The Great Depression- 07/09/10
NLRB Ruling Boosts Workers Seeking Union Election at Foxwoods Resort Casino- 07/09/10

WIN Labor News July 8, 2010

Headlines:
California Budget Battle Continues As Gov. Pushes Minimum Wage Demand For State Workers- 07/08/10
Labor Applauds Obama Recess Appointment Of Medicaid/Medicare Head- 07/08/10
After Ratifying New Contract Minnesota Will Continue To Press Patient Safety Campaign- 07/08/10
Economic Report: Technology Tethers Workers To Their Jobs More Than Ever Before- 07/08/10

WIN Labor News July 7, 2010

Headlines:
SEIU: Schwarzennegger Minimum Wage Ploy Against State Workers Is An Attack On Working People- 07/07/10
United Space Alliance Laying Off Up To 15 Percent Of Its Workforce- 07/07/10
United Steel Workers Formally Requests Oil Industry Re-Open National Oil Agreement On Safety- 07/07/10

WIN Labor News July 6, 2010

Headlines:
Right-Wing Has A Jones For Using Gulf Oil Spill To Attack Maritime Unions- 07/06/10
United Steel Worker Vale Inco Strikers Reach Tentative Deal- 07/06/10
Economic Report: Nearly 7 Million U.S. Workers Have Been Jobless For More Than Six Months- 07/06/10

Labor Report July 5, 2010

Headlines:
American Airlines Workers Prepare For Strike Vote
The Empire State Becomes First in Nation to Grant Domestic Workers' Rights
Congress goes on vacation while the unemployed remain in limbo
California State Workers Face Minimum Wage Order

WIN Labor News July 2, 2010

Headlines:
Clerical Strike At Los Angeles Ports Is Over Outsourcing- 07/02/10
Flight Attendants File For Union Election Under New Rule At Merged Northwest/Delta Airlines- 07/02/10
Operating Engineers Strike Chicago Construction- 07/02/10
Economic Report: ADP Report Shows Just 13,000 New Private Sector Jobs In June- 07/02/10

WIN Labor News July 1, 2010

Headlines:
Labor Movement, Governors Press For Congress To Pass Jobs Bill That Would Save Nearly A Million Jobs- 07/01/10
A Strong Voice For Working Poor Families During Katrina Has Been Silenced By The Right During The BP Oil Spill- 07/01/10
Farm Worker Fair Labor Practices Act May Get A Last Minute Floor Vote In NY State Senate- 07/01/10