The elections this year come down to a choice between leaders who will stand with working people or those whose right-wing agenda will choke off economic recovery and put corporations back in the driver’s seat. With that said, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka outlined plans for an aggressive and massive mobilization of working people this Labor Day weekend and for the fall election. During a press conference this morning at the AFL-CIO, Trumka also announced the federation will run TV and radio ads Labor Day weekend in key markets around Major League Baseball games, NASCAR, and college football games. Click headline to read more>>

Milwaukee AFT Local 2169 member Ashleigh Lund says she hopes that President Obama’s Labor Day appearance with AFL-CIO President AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka at the annual Laborfest "can spur people to get to the voting booths in support of worker friendly candidates this November…I am excited because this shows me that the rights of workers are still important to Obama." Click on the headline to read more>>

How badly do we need our elected leaders to come off their extended vacations and get to work stimulating the economy and creating real jobs? Take a look at two items in the news. First, bankruptcy filings nationwide reached their highest level in five years between April and June, up 11 percent from the same period in 2009. For the fiscal year that ended June 30, consumer bankruptcies jumped 21 percent, to 1.51 million, from the previous year.Click the headline to read more>>

A Quick study of how unions help workers win a voice on th e job.

Taken from the national aflcio webpage.  The link is as follows:

http://aflcio.org/joinaunion/union101.cfm

Every working person in America has the right to certain things in their workplace.  This is a list of things people are entitled to. Click underlined words above for full article.

The North Dakota Labor Leaders Scholarship is open to any union member or the family of a union member who plans on attending a North Dakota University, College, Technical or Trade School. 

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The North Dakota AFL-CIO is the state federation of labor representing over 15,000 members of 90 unions throughout North Dakota. The mission of the North Dakota AFL-CIO is to improve the lives of working families—to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our state and the nation.

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