UPDATE (May 14) — Since this story was originally posted May 10, more unions have announced their support for marriage equality, including UNITE HERE, the Association...
UPDATE — When Patty Rose, Secretary-Treasurer of the Pierce County Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, put out the call this year to donate jars of union-made Jif...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (May 3) — Thousands of working families are gathering outside the Verizon shareholder meeting here this morning, to protest the company’s “VeriGreedy” treatment of...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 2) — In 2010, 4,690 workers were killed on the job – an average of 13 workers every day – and an estimated...
The following is crossposted from AFL-CIO Now: Twenty years ago, when the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) was founded, “you could almost count the number...
UPDATE (Apr. 29) — The “Unite Against the War on Women” events were held across the nation on Saturday. Here are the remarks delivered at the...
SEATTLE —Today’s news coverage of the “grim, dismal” outlook for the nation’s most important and popular social insurance system belies the truth about the relative health...
In early May, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk will host the 12th round of negotiations of the TransPacific Free Trade Agreement (known as the TPP) in...
Aminul Islam, a Bangladeshi labor rights activist and former apparel worker, was tortured and murdered in early April in Dhaka. His body, which bore signs of...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 19) — Corporate executive officers of S&P 500 Index companies received an average of $12.9 million in pay in 2011 — a 14%...