The following is from AFL-CIO Now: (April 15, 2016) — Working people at Verizon are on strike. After months of negotiations with the telecommunications giant, they’ve...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 12, 2016) — On Monday, U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-WA) joined U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez and Director of the White...
Split Supreme Court turns back right-wing Friedrichs attack on labor WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 29, 2016) — The U.S. Supreme Court today announced a 4-4 tie...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Mar. 23, 2016) — The U.S. Department of Labor has sent the long-overdue, much-needed update in overtime pay rules to the Office of Management and...
EDITORIAL (March 17, 2016) — On Wednesday, President Barack Obama nominated Chief Judge Merrick Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 17, 2016) — Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, introduced the Wage Theft Prevention...
By DAVID GROVES The Stand (March 4, 2016) — A new analysis released Thursday by the Economic Policy Institute reveals that trade deficits between the United...
(Mar. 2, 2016) — Like the Seattle City Council before it, the Spokane City Council on Monday announced its unanimous opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)...
The following is from Smart Cities Prevail: (Feb. 29, 2016) — As policy debates rage in states from Michigan and New Hampshire to New Mexico and...
The following is an open letter from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka: Working people like us work hard and do the job we were paid to do...