Teachers celebrate union milestone: 1.5 million members
SEATTLE-Delegates to the American Federation of Teachers 81st biennial convention here danced in the aisles July 9 celebrating their union surpassing 1.5 million members including almost 70,000 new members organized in the past year.
Laundry workers tired of dirty treatment
CLEVELAND - Workers rallied at Sodexo Laundry here July 8, saying they were tired of low pay and unsafe, demeaning working conditions, and want a union.
Deficit hawks take aim at Postal Service
The Postal Service says expected deficits are the reason it wants to close neighborhood post offices, eliminate Saturday service and lay off more employees, but the union calls it a "phony crisis."
Teachers union endorses Oct. 2 One Nation jobs march
SEATTLE — Delegates to the American Federation of Teachers 81th Convention here applauded as AFT President Randi Weingarten urged them to mobilize for an October 2 jobs march on Washington, D.C.
Farmworkers to Colbert Nation: “Take our jobs”
United Farm Worker union president takes the immigration issue to Stephen Colbert with a "Take Our Jobs" campaign.
Appeals court bars Pratt & Whitney from moving jobs
EAST HARTFORD, Conn. - Workers at Pratt & Whitney, owned by the profitable United Technologies Corp., have won a major court decision protecting their jobs.
Domestic workers win basic labor rights
NEW YORK-After a six-year struggle, domestic workers here won a huge victory.
Philly taxi drivers protest immigrant detentions
Taxi drivers protest underhanded tactics and immigration arrests of 25 drivers by local parking authority working in collusion with federal immigration officials.
Strikers at Mott’s pick up nationwide support
Support from around the country is coming in to 300 striking workers at the Mott's apple products plant in Williamson, N.Y.
Workers of the world need a “new global economic order”
VANCOUVER, Canada - In the video below, Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, summarizes an opinion expressed by many at this global union meet: Make the banks pay to create jobs and clean up their mess.
