Union members march on Koch billionaire secret meeting
Hundreds marched on a secretive gathering of billionaires that constitutes the core financial support for numerous right-wing causes.
Officials use budget woes to attack public unions
State officials around the country are using state and local budget woes as a smokescreen for campaigns against public unions.
U.S. union leader jailed in Mexico for supporting Sonora miners
The United Steelworkers has condemned the Jan. 24 arrest of Manny Armenta, one of its international representatives, by customs officials in the northern Mexican state of Sonora.
California's paid family-leave a success
California's landmark Paid Family Leave (PFL) program has produced substantial "economic, social, and health" gains for workers and their families.
Labor supports president’s vision but warns of challenges
The labor movement is reacting positively to the vision of the future put forward by President Obama in his State of the Union speech.
Shop Talk: saving jobs, preventing disasters and more
Not paid at all for three pay periods, 3,750 jobs saved at Kansas City plant, Union credited with saving 700 jobs in Indiana, He wants working families to pay, Coal mine disaster 'preventable'
Health reform begins to affect union members covered on the job
PORTLAND, Ore. - The Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, signed into law March 23, 2010, by Democratic President Barack Obama, is starting to affect health insurance plans that union members and their families are enrolled in.
AFL-CIO prez: Labor must reach out to survive
DETROIT - Saying the labor movement has become too small and too inward-looking to defeat corporate power by itself, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told the Auto Workers legislative conference that unions must build wider coalitions to achieve their legislative and political goals.
Colombian labor leader seeks trade pact delay
WASHINGTON (PAI) - Congress should delay the proposed U.S.-Colombia "free trade" agreement until a key Colombian law that leads to workers' oppression changes and law enforcement there improves, a top Colombian union leader says.
Honeywell lockout threatens thousands in Illinois and Kentucky
United Steelworkers local 7-669 and the Steelworkers international Union issued a well researched report this week outlining the health and safety hazards posed by the use of scab replacement workers to operate Honeywell's Metropolis Illinois plant.
