Get ready for a brand new round of ideological politicizing of workers’ rights. This morning, the National Labor Relations Board announced proposed new rules intended to...
The AARP set off a firestorm Friday when its policy chief, John Rother, suggested that the seniors’ group was dropping its long-standing opposition to cutting Social...
South Carolina workers called on South Carolina Representatives, Gov. Nikki Haley and other lawmakers to focus on creating good jobs and to stop their political three-ring...
Do you shop at Target to avoid supporting the notoriously anti-union WalMart? You might want to reconsider. Check out this leaked 13-minute video, “Think Hard Before...
Tuesday, June 7 was the 10-year anniversary of President George W. Bush’s tax cuts that went mostly to very rich individuals and big corporations. As AFL-CIO Now pointed...
The American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO vowed to re-double its efforts to preserve Transportation Security Administration collective bargaining after anti-union forces in the U.S. House...
The BlueGreen Alliance and Apollo Alliance announced a merger Thursday to strengthen and unify the movement to build a clean energy, good jobs economy to fuel...
In a 40-57 vote on Wednesday, the U.S. Senate rejected the budget passed by House Republicans. Washington Democratic Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray both voted...
With one stroke of his pen at 12:30 pm on Wednesday, May 25, Republican Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin stripped hundreds of thousands of his state’s...
In a major address at the National Press Club on Friday, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka charted an aggressive independent approach for the labor movement to build...