Democrats Haunted by Corporate Ties | CommonDreams.org
President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are promising a climactic clash with Wall Street, but there's a complication in their battle plan: The Democratic Party is closer to corporate America - and to Wall Street in particular - than many Democrats would care to admit

North Carolina Democrats' votes against health care push labor to form party
RALEIGH, N.C. -- A political rebellion is brewing inside an old funeral home near the state Capitol here. Frustrated liberals and labor organizers are taking aim at the Democratic Party, rushing to gather enough signatures to start a third party that they believe could help oust three Democratic congressmen.

A preventable epidemic: Latino deaths in the workplace | Viewpoints, Outlook | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Every day in this country, 14 workers lose their lives in preventable workplace tragedies. That adds up to 5,000 people who lose their lives on the job every year. Some people say it's just a fact of life and some jobs are dangerous. But this is the 21st century, and no worker should have to lose his or her life for a paycheck

AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | We’re Still Mourning the Dead and Fighting for the Living
A century ago, many immigrant coal miners worked long hours at low pay in jobs that threatened their lives and limbs.
George F. Baer didn’t care. As he said:
“They don’t suffer. Why, they can’t even speak English.”

t r u t h o u t | Farm Workers Fight for an Extra Cent
Tampa, Florida - Chanting "No more slaves! Pay a living wage!", hundreds of farmworkers, students and others marched 22 miles through central Florida for three days, calling on the Publix supermarket chain to pay an extra penny to the impoverished workers who pick their tomatoes

New program to help homeless veterans find housing in Somers Point, Tuckerton - pressofAtlanticCity.com
Community Quest Inc., of Egg Harbor Township, plans to turn the Atlantis Apartments in Somers Point into housing for veterans.
“I didn’t know where to go,” George Benner said. “I didn’t know what to do.”
Benner, a Navy veteran of Vietnam, was doing everything he could to try to keep his house on Jefferson Court in Somers Point. But after being laid off from his longtime casino job following a car accident, he was forced to declare bankruptcy in the fall.

AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Limbaugh Lies About Big Branch Mine: No, Rush, It Wasn’t Union
It was Sen. Al Franken (D- Minn.) in his previous incarnation as an author and comedian who called Rush Limbaugh “A big fat liar.” Well, others can address the first part, but Limbaugh himself has again offered solid evidence about the liar part.