Americans Ask, "Where Are The Jobs?"

On US 2011 Labor Day the SEIU reports that a ‘shockingly large majority of Congress Representatives are actively choosing not to listen to constituents who are bearing the brunt of the worst US economy since the Great Depression’:  http://www.seiu.org/2011/09/americans-demand-good-jobs-this-labor-day.php

US public opinion about trade unions sharply polarised

Today is Labor Day in the US - a celebration of union organisation and working people first held in 1882. A New York Times opinion survey shows sharply polarised opinions in the US about trade unions - a slim majority of Americans, 52 percent, approve of unions and the difference in views between how Democrats and Republicans feel toward unions has reached record levels: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/02/a-challenge-for-unions-in-public-opinion/