The union movement and our allies are taking our fight for good jobs now to the biggest Wall Street banks whose reckless greed has gone a long way to wreck the U.S. economy and kill American jobs. From March 15-26, working people will hold rallies and demonstrations at branches of the Big Six Wall Street banks—Bank of America, Chase, Citigroup, Wachovia-Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley—across the country. They will tell the banks “We Are Not Your ATMs” and “Make Wall Street Pay for Creating New Jobs.” Read More>>

Thousands of union members, community activists, religious leaders and others turned out in Washington, D.C., today to confront Big Insurance and demand insurance companies stop plotting to kill health care reform even as Congress debates bills to reform the nation’s broken health care system. Read More>>

OAKLAND, March 10 – The largest labor organization in the East Bay today announced its endorsements for key June 2010 elections, and called for a coordinated program to create good jobs at the local, state and federal level.

Oakland Airport screeners rally for union rights 

OAKLAND — State and local political and labor leaders joined security workers at Oakland International Airport on Friday for a rally demanding union rights.

About [150] transportation security officers, union members and others chanted and waved signs near the airport's Terminal 2 in an event similar to those that have been staged at airports across the nation.

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The Alameda Labor Council, AFL-CIO is a union of unions, uniting workers from manufacturing, education, transportation,  healthcare, private and public sector. The mission of the Alameda Labor Council, AFL-CIO is to improve the lives of working families—to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our communities and the nation.

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