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...
While many Republicans in Congress are backing away from cutting and privatizing Medicare, freshman U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-3rd) is reaffirming her support for the...
In the 2009 legislative session, just months after organized labor in Washington state had played a key role in helping to elect Gov. Chris Gregoire and...
The 500 workers at Rite Aid’s distribution center in Lancaster, Calif., overcame a relentless five-year anti-worker campaign to eventually gain a tentative contract and union recognition....