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UAW: U.S. Cars on the Road to Success
--------- Tula Connell --------- Photo by Joe Kekeris By Tula Connell AFL-CIO Managing Editor Higher profits and new fuel-efficient models have put American-made cars back on the road again—with the...
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Corker Tells Whopper: “I Saved the Auto Industry”
Mike Hall By Mike Hall AFL-CIO Senior Writer Some lies are just tiny fibs, reshading the truth just a little bit, something all of us—except for the purest of heart—have done. Then there is the...
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Banks Should Follow Chase and Declare Moratorium on Foreclosures
James Parks By James Parks AFL-CIO Senior Writer The rest of the banking industry should follow JPMorgan Chase’s example and declare a nationwide moratorium on home foreclosures, AFL-CIO Executive Vice...
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BlueGreen Alliance Calls for Green Jobs Agenda Now
James Parks By James Parks AFL-CIO Senior Writer Congress has an opportunity to put in place essential policies to create jobs, reduce carbon emissions and make America more energy independent. In its...
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UAW, GM Reach Tentative Agreement
By James ParksAFL-CIO Senior Writer The UAW reached a tentative agreement with General Motors Co. (GM) late last night. The union says the new pact, which covers 48,500 employees, achieved some major...
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Romney And Perry Speak In Michigan, Epicenter Of The Auto Industry They...
By Pat Garofalo Economic Policy Editor, Center for American Progress Action Fund ThinkProgress.orgBoth Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) will speak before the...
View ArticleAmerican Workers: The Best Bet
Remember the fear in 2008? Think of the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. Wall Street melting down. Pension savings disappearing. Housing values plunging and foreclosures skyrocketing....
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America Needs Less Mulally More Drucker
By Jim Hightower Author, Commentator, America’s Number One Populist“Morally wrong,” is how United Auto Worker president Bob King described last year’s paygrab by one worker at Ford Motor Co. And this...
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Need Some Wheels? UAW’s 2014 Union-Made Car List
By Mike Hall AFL-CIO Senior Writer The UAW’s 2014 Union-Built Vehicles List features quality, variety and fuel-efficient vehicles along with a number of new additions that represent new jobs for...
View ArticleGOPers Know Best — NOT
Typically, the GOP styles itself as the all-knowing party, the party so God-like that it has the right to control how individual citizens live their lives. GOPers believe, for example, that low income...
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UAW, GM Team Up to Make It in America
By Mike Hall AFL-CIO Senior Writer Another great win emerges from autoworkers and industry collaboration. General Motors Co. (GM) will invest more than $1.3 billion to upgrade and expand five...
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Every Once and a While It’s Incredibly Easy to See Behind the Veil
By Jared Bernstein Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities This AMs NYT has a piece about a fascinating development in Tennessee, where management in a privately owned auto company, a VW...
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