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Possible Immigration Changes
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:00:00 -0400
While the presidential candidates will undoubtedly discuss immigration during the next two months, the real battle over policy may come on state ballots. Here, an overview of some of the measures being considered.
Investigating Impropriety From The Bush Years
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:00:00 -0400
NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr comments about the legacy of investigations of impropriety from the Bush administration.
Letter About Palin Goes Viral
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:05:00 -0400
This week in Wasilla, Alaska, a woman named Anne Kilkenny sent a letter to some college friends about her former mayor, Sarah Palin. By week's end, the letter was pinging around the country and Kilkenny's phone was ringing off the hook.

 

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Allied Professionals - Representing over 4,000 nurses and other health care workers employed throughout Rhode Island,Vermont, and Connecticut

Actors' Equity Association - Representing actors and stage managers in the legitimate theatre in the United States.

Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) - Bargaining unit that represents over 350 production companies and studios. Site offers news and information including status between AMPTP and the Writers Guild of America (WGA), Screen Actors Guild (SAG), and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA).

Booksellersunion.org - A website for workers organizing unions at Borders, Barnes and Noble and other bookstore chains.

CGEU: Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions - Information about labor unions representing Teaching Assistants, Research Assistants, and other graduate student employees. The Coalition is a loose-knit network of unions in the USA and Canada.

Directors Guild of America - Represents over 10,000 directors in the cinema, TV and radio.
Meta Description: [ This is the Official Website of the Directors Guild of America. The DGA is here to serve and protect member rights in the arena of filmmaking ]

George Meany Center for Labor Studies and Memorial Library - Located in Silver Spring, Maryland offers one-week non-credit labor studies programs and conferences in organizing, negotiations, union building and leadership and a variety of other labor related issues free of charge.
Meta Description: [ National Labor College, George Meany Campus Web Site: A national center providing continuous labor education for all union activists. ]

Graphic Artists Guild - Union committed to improving conditions for all creators of graphic art and raising standards for the entire industry. Affiliated with the UAW.
Meta Description: [ The Graphic Artists Guild promotes and protects the economic interest of its members. It is committed to improving conditions for all creators of graphic art and raising standards for the entire industry. ]

Labor Research Association Online - A non-profit research organization providing news and analysis covering the U.S. economy and labor movement.
Meta Description: [ LRA Online is a non-profit research organization providing news, analysis and statisitics on the U.S. economy and labor unions. ]

MGBS Comprehensive Listing of Labor Links - Links to unions, both inside and outside the US, labor disputes, boycotts, and other labor-related sites.
Meta Description: [ Orginal news and commentary on issues affecting labor, with a comprehensive listing of labor unions, maintained by the law firm Mooney, Green, Baker & Saindon, P.C. ]

National Football League Players Association - News and profiles of individual players as well as games and merchandise.

National Substitute Teachers Alliance (NSTA) - Supports substitute teachers by promoting professional development, good wages, health benefits, fair work evaluations, and unbiased employment opportunities. Page includes information about the newsletter, articles, annual conference details, and insurance products.
Meta Description: [ National Substitute Teachers Alliance - NSTA - Partners in Education ]

Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers - Independent union representing members throughout the US and abroad. Has jurisdiction over productions including Broadway, national tours; Off-Broadway; Off-Off-Broadway; summer stock, civic light opera and dinner theatre .
Meta Description: [ The Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers is an independent labor union for Stage Directors and Choreographers. Member representatives of the organization collectively bargain contracts with producer organizations. ]

Stand Up For Steel - Stand Up For Steel contains news on the campaign against cheap steel imports and trade liberalization. Site is sponsored by the Independent Steelworkers Union which represents the 3,600 workers at Weirton Steel Corporation in Weirton, West Virginia.

Taft Hartley Benefit Fund Administration Software - Customized software for Taft-Hartley, Union, Multi-Employer, ERISA and Employee Benefit Plan Administration.
Meta Description: [ Taft,Hartley,HIPAA,Compliant,Benefit,Fund,Administration,Software,Computer,Systems ]

Union Friendly - Information and referral services for union members and their families including union links, boycott and strike lists, apprentice programs, union travel, shopping, professional services, family entertainment section.

Union Members Web - Includes list of labor friendly products, services, discounts, benefits and union news.
Meta Description: [ A website for union members to find union friendly products,news,information and services. ]

Union of American Physicians and Dentists - Represents salaried medical doctors.
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Union Summer - A campaign by the AFL-CIO which recruits students and young people to spend their summers organizing for the labor movement.
Meta Description: [ Union Summer ]

UnionSites - Union affiliated, in-house web-hosting, web-design and ISP services.
Meta Description: [ UnionSites.com union website hosting and design. You work in a union environment, so should your website. ]

UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc. - Federation of the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA); Native American Journalists Association (NAJA); National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ); and National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHA).
Meta Description: [ Representing more than 7,000 journalists of color, UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc. is a strategic alliance of Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA), National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ), and Native American Journalists Ass... ]

US Union Network - Union news and resources.

Virginia and North Carolina Laborers' District Council - Includes local unions representing meat packers, hospital and public service employees, and construction laborers. Locator map.
Meta Description: [ Virginia Laborers, North Carolina Laborers,General Construction Virginia, General Construction North Carolina, Laborer Union Virginia, Laborer Union North Carolina, Virginia Trades, North Carolina Trades ]

Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) - A labor union, promoting and protecting the professional and artistic interests of writers and others in the creative community of the motion picture, television, radio and communications industries in the US. WGAE is affiliated with the AFL-CIO.
Meta Description: [ The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) is a labor union, promoting and protecting the professional and artistic interests of writers and others in the creative community of the motion picture, television, radio and communications industries in the US. ]

Writers Guild of America, west (WGAw) - A union representing writers in the motion picture, broadcast, cable and new media industries.