WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 14, 2014) — Last week, all four of Washington state’s Republican members of Congress sided with Speaker John Boehner and voted to approve...
(April 14, 2014) — The notion of “American exceptionalism,” that our nation is qualitatively different from others because of our independence and emergence from a revolution,...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 11, 2014) — Since House Republican leaders allowed the Emergency Unemployment Compensation benefits program to expire in December 2013, nearly 2.8 million jobless...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Mar. 28, 2014) — Twenty years later and what have we learned from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)? Nearly 700,000 U.S. jobs have...
The following is from the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a non-partisan think tank focusing on economic and social issues. WASHINGTON, D.C. (Mar. 26, 2014)...
The following is from AFL-CIO Now: MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Mar. 20, 2014) — When the Kellogg Co. locked out some 220 workers from its Memphis plant in...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Mar. 13, 2014) — Declaring that “the U.S. Postal Service is under unprecedented attack,” the presidents of the four postal unions have formed a...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Mar. 12, 2014) — Multinational corporations are increasingly contracting out what used to be family-wage company jobs to staffing companies to avoid unionization and...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Mar. 6, 2014) — U.S. Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) introduced the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Act of 2014 on Thursday to provide critical job...
SALEM, Ore. (Mar. 4, 2014) — Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber announced Monday that two anti-union initiatives, including a so-called “right-to-work” measure to weaken the state’s public...