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A Rescue Package for Working Women

Wall Street tycoons behave irresponsibly, bring the country to financial brink, hold out their hands for an eleven-figure bailout -- and lobbyists applaud that as a rescue.

Women achieve daily miracles fulfilling responsibilities to their employers and their families, ask for modest protections so they won't be fired for having a sick kid -- and lobbyists denounce that as mandates.

What's wrong with this picture?

Posted in Politics, Labor, Public Health/Safety

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October 22, 2008
1:03 PM

CONTACT: Human Rights Watch (HRW)

US: Improve Workers’ Rights in Trade Accords

WASHINGTON - October 22 - Labor provisions in US free trade accords are weak and are not effectively enforced, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. Major reforms are needed.

The 36-page report, "A Way Forward for Workers' Rights in US Free Trade Accords," provides a roadmap for a new US administration to strengthen the requirements for workers' rights in these agreements and to improve their enforcement.   

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Posted in Human Rights, Labor

Brother, Can You Spare the Time?

During his first re-election campaign, FDR came to Bedford, Massachusetts in 1936, stumping for four more years of New Deal.

In the crowd was a young girl with an envelope. She tried to make her way to the President to give him the enveloped note but was turned away by a policeman. Roosevelt told one of his aides: "Get the note from the girl."

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