WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden plans to honor Richard Trumka, the deceased former head of the largest U.S. labor organization, with t.
The rare planetary alignment in mid-June was accompanied by the equally rare alignment of the AFL-CIO convention and the Labor Notes conference. It’s not often there is the opportunity for such direct comparison of the top leadership and activist base of the labor movement. The AFL-CIO met from June 12-15 in Philadelphia. The theme of the convention was “Organize and Rise.”
How to explain the way the excited audience at ¿Newsies,¿ the latest and truly crowd-pleasing Broadway musical from Disney Theatrical Productions, stops the show with cheers on a whole slew of occasions, popping up from their seats, vicarious cloth caps firmly in place, and ready to cheer like union organizers? Chris Jones has the Chicago Tribune review.
At least 13 infants died in the past dozen years while lying in a Fisher-Price Infant-to-Toddler Rocker or Newborn-to-Toddler Rocker, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission and Fisher-Price announced.