The Top Issues Include Unemployment Compensation, Wage Floors and Charter Schools The Alabama AFL-CIO announced its agenda for the second half of the legislative session today in a press release, challenging Republicans on bills related to Unemployment Compensation, Worker’s Compensation and Charter Schools. “SB 300 and HB 285 will make Alabama’s Unemployment Insurance, ranked 49th…
Daily Archives: April 2, 2012
Labor, Civil Rights Groups Ask Daimler (Mercedes) to Demand Repeal of H.B. 56
A delegation representing civil rights and labor leaders will be in Berlin, Germany, on Wednesday April 4 to urge Daimler AG and its shareholders to seek repeal of Alabama’s racial profiling law, H.B. 56, according to a press release sent out in an e-mail blast by the Service Employees International Union. The law denies fundamental…
Bill Moyers Interviews Organizer George Goehl on The 99% Spring
Bill Moyers talks with community organizer George Goehl about how — and even if — average people can fight back against self-rewarding actions of banks and corporations. “If we want to shift our politics,” Goehl tells Moyers, “we have to make politicians who side with the big banks and the larger corporations pay a price…
Obama Builds Biggest Lead Over Republicans To Date in Presidential Race
The President Now Leads Among Independents and in Key Swing States by Glynn Wilson President Barack Obama now holds the biggest lead polls have shown so far over Republicans in the presidential race. He now also leads with independents and in 12 key swing states, making the incumbent president the odds on favorite to win…
