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Hollywood celebrities could see fewer fake visits from cops after California’s crackdown on a prank called ‘swatting,’ where jokesters place bogus 911 calls to draw police to the homes of entertainers and others.A new law, signed by Gov.
CLEVELAND — The two Ohio correctional officers on duty when Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro was found hanged in this cell were put on paid leave Tuesday pending an internal investigation, a prison spokeswoman said.
A Colorado man riding a horse to his brother's wedding 600 miles away in Utah was arrested for drunken driving, animal cruelty and other charges after witnesses reported him blocking traffic and hitting his horse, police said on Tuesday.
Attendees of the action session, “This Is NOT What Democracy Looks Like! The Democracy Initiative,” heard hopeful solutions to large problems with our democratic process. The tool for correcting these problems of political inequality was the topic of the session: the Democratic Initiative. The executive director of the Democratic Initiative, Marissa Brown, summed up the group’s task: “We are about making government function for people who voted for a government that functions.”
Delegates at the AFL-CIO’s quadrennial convention elected Tefere Gebre as the AFL-CIO’s new executive vice president this afternoon. Gebre was nominated to succeed Arlene Holt Baker after she announced her retirement in July.
Delegates to the 2013 AFL-CIO Convention today elected a trio of top officers to lead the labor movement to become, said re-elected AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, “the movement America needs us to be and we must be.”AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Elizabeth Shuler was elected to a second term and, in a classic American success story, Tefere Gebre, a 45-year-old Ethiopian political refugee who immigrated to the United States as a teenager, was elected executive vice president.
In a time when the globalized economy means that steelworkers in Bahia, Brazil, work for the same multinational as their counterparts in Beaumont, Texas, the AFL-CIO is ramping up efforts to help workers organize around the world and fight against bad international trade deals that strip workers of their rights and give corporations unchecked power. Delegates to the AFL-CIO Convention in Los Angeles passed two resolutions today directly dealing with these important issues.
House and Senate leaders Tuesday formally awarded Congress’ highest civilian honor to the families of the four girls killed in an Alabama church bombing nearly half a century ago that is now regarded as one of the most horrific passages of the civil rights era.
A surge of late-summer heat was blazing across the U.S. Midwest on Tuesday, prompting officials to shutter public schools in Illinois and Ohio as record high temperatures turned the region into a veritable oven.
Lazy. Out of touch. Greedy. Self-serving. Thuggish.Chances are you’ve heard a union member or leader called one of these things (and in all likelihood, more than once), and it made your blood boil. The unfortunate truth is that misconceptions, stereotypes and all-out lies seem to be dominating the public discussion and perception of labor unions, even among some progressives. We in the labor movement know that unions stand for the working class as the sole and vital counterbalance to corporate greed and excess…but no one else seems to have gotten the memo.
