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For Jordan Arwood, the images return in waves. A wall of dirt collapsing and burying his 6-year-old daughter and her 7-year-old cousin in a pit he was working on. Rescue workers frantically pulling the children from thick red clay. Their lifeless bodies placed in the back of an ambulance. "When she came out of the hole she was so cold," Arwood, of Stanley, N.C., told The Associated Press in his fi...
Thousands of working families will rally at the U.S. Capitol today at 3 p.m. to support a commonsense immigration process that will include a road map to citizenship for the nation's 11 million aspiring Americans. Follow the rally on Twitter and in the video (embedded in the post). AFL-CIO Latino and AFL-CIO digital strategist Jessica Morales, along with other ally groups, will be live-tweeting from the rally. Change your Facebook and Twitter avatars.
When this article was written last Sunday, the hunger strike was on its third day and workers were set to be fired the following Monday and Tuesday, April 8 and 9. As of today, the hunger strike has ended as planned and the Hilton Mission Valley hotel has not yet fired the workers, although that may still occur.We are three days into a five-day hunger strike that was called to save the jobs of nine immigrant workers at the Hilton Mission Valley hotel in San Diego. I, along with six others, have refused to eat since Friday morning. The nine workers we are supporting [were] set to be fired on Monday, April 8, and Tuesday, April 9, because after they tried to organize a union, Evolution Hospitality decided to use E-Verify. This is a program that checks immigrants' documented status—a program that isn't even mandatory with the federal government.
The couple who allegedly ran off with their two young sons, causing a massive search that ended in Cuba on Tuesday, has returned to the United States and been placed under arrest.Joshua and Sharyn Hakken were arrested by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s office in Florida and jailed on charges that included child neglect, kidnapping, and burglary, according to records maintained by the sheriff’s o...
When reporter Jana Winter wrote an exclusive story last July on the contents of a notebook that movie-theater massacre suspect James Holmes sent to his psychiatrist, she likely did not think it had the potential to ruin her career or send her to jail.The day Winter broke the story, her work dominated the news cycle, frequently cited by Fox News reporters and commentators discussing the slaughter o...
Berry Craig, recording secretary for the Paducah-based Western Kentucky AFL-CIO Area Council and a professor of history at West Kentucky Community and Technical College, is a former daily newspaper and Associated Press columnist and currently a member of AFT Local 1360. Craig sends us this.The Western Kentucky AFL-CIO Area Council has endorsed a Mine Workers (UMWA)-sponsored resolution declaring that “as community members and leaders, we believe that Peabody [Energy], Arch [Coal] and Patriot Coal should not be using the bankruptcy process to shed themselves of providing health care and pension obligations to coal miners who put their lives and health at risk every day working for Peabody, Arch and Patriot Coal.”
President Barack Obama will stick to his forthcoming budget on Wednesday, and does not regard it as a "starting point" for negotiations with Republicans toward a fiscal deal.The administration's 2014 budget — which Obama will introduce at 11:15 a.m. on Wednesday — seeks an additional $1.8 trillion in savings through a combination of new revenues, entitlement reforms and targeted cuts to discretion...
Two key senators have reached a deal to expand background checks to firearms sales at gun shows and on the Internet, sources close to the negotiations said early Wednesday. Sen. Pat Toomey, a conservative Pennsylvania Republican, plan to announce the deal Wednesday with West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, who holds an A rating from the National Rifle Association. The two have been working ...
Senators have reached a deal on background checks for firearms, sources close to the negotiations said Wednesday, setting the stage for a vote on new gun laws later this week.Sen. Pat Toomey, a Pennsylvania Republican, will announce the agreement at an 11 a.m. ET press conference with West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, who holds an A rating from the National Rifle Association, the sources ...
Senate Democrats have reached a deal on background checks for firearms, sources close to the negotiations said early Wednesday, setting the stage for a vote on new gun laws later this week.Sen. Pat Toomey, a conservative Pennsylvania Republican, will announce the agreement later Wednesday with West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, who holds an A rating from the National Rifle Association, the...
