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"We cannot Have a Free Society

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The mission of American Rights At Work is to fight for a nation where the freedom of workers to organize unions and bargain collectively with employers is restored, guaranteed and promoted.  Click on the picture link for more information.

 

 

All workers deserve to make a free and fair decision on whether to form a union.  Find out how to organize by going to the National AFL-CIO link above or contact the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO at Solidarity@wisaflcio.org

 

 

   Find out your rights at work when serving your country in military duty. 

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This site separates the rhetoric from reality. It tracks the actions of Bush and his administration on working family issues and provides links for additional information.  Click on the above link for more.

 

 

Free Press is a national nonpartisan organization working to increase informed public participation in crucial media policy debates, and to generate policies that will produce a more competitive and public interest-oriented media system with a strong nonprofit and noncommercial sector.  Click on the above picture link for more.

 

 

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Where trade unionists start their day on the net.
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Job Watch: Tracking Jobs and Wages.

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 from the Economic Policy Institute.

 

 

The NLC views worker rights in a global economy as indivisible and inalienable human rights, and we believe that now is the time to secure them for all on the planet. The Committee undertakes public education, research and social activism to empower citizens in our nations to support the brave and growing worker movements in Asia, Africa and the Americas. 

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•   Inflation and Stagnant Wages Hit European Workers and Middle Class, Too
•   The Financial Crisis: An Interview With George Soros
•   All You Ever Wanted to Know About the Health Care Debate:  the Campaign for America's Future "Health Care for All" Home Page
•   April Unemployment Numbers (by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney)
•   The World Food Crisis (by John Nichols)
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The Democrats 'Free Trade' Divide

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GM Lays Off Janesville Workers, Raises CEO Pay (Michael Rosen Midcoast Blog)

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Wisconsin Eye Video of Wisconsin Labor History Society Conference: "An Historical Perspective on Immigration in Wisconsin: The Impact on Workers, Unions"

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Washington State Plans for the Future of Health Care Reform (Healthy Wisconsin a Model)

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Have at Least $3000 in Income? File Tax Return to Get Stimulus Payment!

•   Confessions of a Sweatshop Inspector
•   "Recovery" the Worst Since World War II
•   Wisconsin Alliance for Retired Americans May Newsletter
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Iraqi Labor Movement May Day Statement

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Wisconsin State AFL-CIO Announces Endorsements in Congressional and State Legislative Races

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McCain’s Health Care Plan: Increases Taxes, Decreases Coverage

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What 8 Years of BushCheney Have Done to Our Economy (by Jim Hightower)

•   Sweeney vs. McCain on Health Care
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AFL-CIO President John Sweeney on Supreme Court Voter ID Decision

•   Labor Scores Symbolic Victory Against Colombia FTA
•   Health Care Crunch Climbs the Occupational Ladder (EPI)
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Newsflash:  Populism is Popular!
(David Sirota)
•   President Bush Has Made Tax Day Easier for the Rich!
•   What Would You Do With Three Trillion Dollars?
•   How Bush Administration Ignored Housing/Mortgage Crisis
•   "Missing:  Our Trade Strategy" (America's trade policy lacks a preference for Americans), op-ed
by Harold Meyerson
•   Income Inequality Grows in Wisconsin
•   Bush and McCain:  Endless War...On the Installment Plan (Move-On video--one minute)
•   AFL-CIO President Sweeney Blasts Bush's US-Colombia "Free Trade" Agreement
•   Tell Congress:  Bring the Troops Home! (U.S. Labor Against the War)
•   McCain a No Show (David Newby)
•   McCain:  "No one has supported President Bush on Iraq more than I have" (click here to play)
•   The Economy Today; The Economy Tomorrow (Dean Baker)
•   The Collapsing Housing Bubble and Resulting Financial Fallout
•   Financial Meltdown: Time for a Holiday From Progressive Politics?
•   New Charges Filed Against Madison Sweatshop: Superior Health Linens
•   What About McCain's Pastor Problems?
•   New Report Shows How Many People Are Likely to Die in Wisconsin
•   "Taming the Beast" (the need for regulation of US financial institutions), by Paul Krugman (NYT)
•   "Healthy Wisconsin is Fixed and Ready To Go" (Jack Lohman)
•   Rich Investment Banks: Bailouts with Our Money; Ordinary Folks: Chump Change
•   "The $2 Trillion Nightmare" (cost of Iraq War) by Bob Herbert (New York Times)
•   John McCain in His Own Words on:  NAFTA, "Free Trade", Health Care for Veterans, Health Care Reform, the American Economy (video)
•   CEO Pay and the Mortgage Crisis (video)
•   Comprehensive Health Care Bill Taken Up by Wisconsin Senate
•   John McCain on Iraq and Iran
•   "State House Crock" -- Money and Politics (animated)
•   Foreclosure Plans Benefit Banks but Do Little for Homeowners
•   More on Wisconsin, Trade, and the Democratic Primary
•   The Democratic Primary, Trade, and the Wisconsin Fair Trade Coalition
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Wisconsin Put Trade on the Agenda!

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Are You a Union Member who is a Veteran, Serving Active Duty in the  Military/Guard/Reserves -- or a Member of a Military Family?

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Paychecks Shrink and Insecurity Grows

•   The Federal Reserve:  Total Failure
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Time for Wall Street to Pay

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American Labor Laws Fall  Short of American Values

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Presidential Candidates' Positions on Trade (Wisconsin Fair Trade Coalition)

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The Recession and the Freedom 
to Organize
•   Support the Right of Iraq Workers to Organize!
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"Healthy Wisconsin" Becomes a Health Care Reform Model for the Nation

•   Economic Policy Institute:  Pushing for a Smart Stimulus Plan
•   Brutal Attack on American Workers -- Judge Allows Smithfield Lawsuit Against Union to Proceed
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Economists Rethink Free Trade (Business Week!)

•   AFL-CIO Urges Congress to Pass Broad Economic Stimulus Package
That Will “Get the Biggest Bang for the Buck”
•   "The Political Economy of Migration", by David Bacon (and how Rep. James Sensenbrenner profits from U.S. immigration policy).  A long read -- but worth it!
•   Social Security Disability Backlog Can Mean Waits of More Than Three Years
•   Dave Zweifel: Rhetoric of Biz Bites Back
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Rx for Recession: An Economic 
Strategy that Works 
•   Do You Earn $21,000 an Hour?
•   Another Wal-Mart Bargain in China? Monitoring Well-run Prisons
•   "The Squandering of America", by Robert Kuttner (New York Times)
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Iraq's Civil Resistance

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Wage Increases Far Less Than Inflation

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Labor's Global Push

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Global Labor Leaders Stress Workers' Freedom to Join Unions to Congress

•   The Story of Stuff (terrific 20-minute video)
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CounterThink: Countries and Corporations

•   Myths About Social Security
•   Job Loss Due to Spending on Iraq/Afghanistan Wars
•   Adjustment Assistance and Globalization: Not Much of a Deal
•   "Health Care Excuses", by Paul Krugman (New York Times)
•   Strong Opposition of AFL-CIO to Proposed Colombia Free Trade Agreement
•   The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Job Quality in the United States over the Three Most Recent Business Cycles
•   Bill Moyers on "Free Trade"
•   "HSA's The Next Big Non-Solution" (to our health care crisis)
•   CEO Compensation: A Year's Pay for a Day's Work
•   Bush Tax Cuts Make Balancing the Budget, Funding Benefits an Impossibility
•   Free Trade Agreement with Colombia? No Way!
•   Without a Union, What Can Get You Fired?
•   NY Times Says It's Time to Get Out of Iraq
•   Canada Protects Right to Bargain
•   "Free Trade" Flim-Flam
•   "Rights at Work:  A Guide for Teens"

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Cost of the War in Iraq.

•   The Establishment Rethinks Globalization, by William Greider        (The Nation)
•   Almost as Many Union Leaders Killed in Columbia as U.S. Solders Killed in Iraq: But Bush Wants U.S. to Sign "Free Trade" Agreement with Columbia!
•   National AFL-CIO Statement on Iraq
•   National AFL-CIO Executive Council Resolution on Health Care
•   What if Presidential Elections Were Like Union Elections?
•   Unions Aim for More Conservation Efforts: Union Sportsmen's Alliance (USA)
•   "Consumer-Driven" Health Care:  A False Promise

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What's Wrong with the U.S. Health Care System?  

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