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...back to a four-day workweek; and with even Japanese powerhouse Toyota facing U.S. sales slumps, the company this week said it's delaying the startup of a new plant in Mississippi that will make its Prius hybrid car. Even workers like Ray now feel that a union "would definitely benefit" Dixie autoworkers; and either way, says Cashman, the New South's economies "still have many, many miles of training and education...
...When union people get paid good wages, that money stays in the community, it helps to provide a vibrant economy, it helps to also even send their children like me...to college and to eventually even run for office." - On the Employee Free Choice Act, which would make it easier for employees to form unions and to bargain with employers (Washington Post...
When President-elect Barack Obama tapped California Democrat Hilda Solis to be his administration's Labor Secretary, union leaders across the country rejoiced. The four-term Congresswoman has spent the better part of two decades championing workers' rights, including the Employee Free Choice Act, a new bill that would make it easier for workers to organize. But some Republicans have taken issue with her legislative approach, deriding her as an unyielding advocate of environmentalists and labor groups. Solis might very well agree with the "unyielding" part: she told the Los Angeles Times in 2000 that compromising "just to keep things...
...Born in 1957 to Juana and Raul Solis, who met in citizenship classes in California. Solis' mother, a native of Nicaragua, worked on an assembly line while her father, a Mexican immigrant, worked as a steward for the Teamsters union...
...been as strong a voice for justice for SEIU workers like our janitors and homecare workers as we've ever had." - Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, reacting to Solis' nomination as Labor Secretary (Bloomberg...