UPDATE (July 19) — from AFL-CIO Now — Senate Republicans say ‘Don’t Bring Jobs Home’— Given the choice between supporting American workers or the corporations that ship...
The following is crossposted from AFL-CIO Now: Check out the AFL-CIO’s new Innovators website feature, “Not Your Daddy’s Labor Movement,” here. Leave behind what you know...
The following is cross-posted from the Economic Policy Institute: Many young people don’t think Social Security will be there for them when they retire. Coupled with...
By TOM GEIGER Special to The Stand You’ve probably heard how Walmart pays low wages and meager benefits and how they erode local businesses in small...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 11) — House Republicans on Tuesday decided it’s more important to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act, which has helped hundreds of millions...
EVERETT (July 9) — In the past decade, 50,000 manufacturing sites closed and 6 million American jobs were lost because of offshoring and outsourcing. The Kimberly-Clark...
In a major victory for Department of Veterans Affairs employees and the American Federation of Government Employees, the VA last week ordered an immediate suspension of...
(July 6) — Next week, the fight to save Saturday delivery will take center stage in the U.S. House of Representatives, which is expected to take...
OLYMPIA and AUGUSTA, Maine (July 6) — While U.S. trade negotiators are meeting behind closed doors in San Diego, 130 state legislators from all 50 states and Puerto Rico...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 29) — U.S. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Subcommittee announced she has included up to $20...