UAW faces attacks like never before, says Gettelfinger
The UAW and its workers have been through a tumultuous period, as the 75-year-old union meets this week in Detroit.
In Texas, $18 billion in hole, yet governor lives luxury life
DALLAS -- While the Republicans hold their convention here, the Texas AFL-CIO held a press conference to highlight that these "fiscal conservatives" have dropped the state into an $18 billion deficit hole.
Your mailman searches for the ghosts of Tom and Joe
Today a young couple with two kids told me a sad story: they are giving their house, a house they had built just eight years ago, back to the bank.
Young union activists quiz top leaders, plan networks
WASHINGTON (PAI)--In a scene that one postal worker from Chicago said was unlike any other union conclave he ever attended.
Arkansas lesson: organize the South
There was justice in organized labor's efforts to unseat Blanche Lincoln - but the real issue is the unfulfilled historic legacy of its plans to organize the South.
Hyatt workers protest in San Francisco
Some 400 workers at the Hyatt Regency hotel here held a three-day strike June 8-10.
Texas nurses vote to join union
More than 1,900 registered nurses at five Texas hospitals have voted to join the National Nurses Organizing Committee-Texas (NNOC-Texas).
Protests force suspension of Hyatt's first shareholders meeting
Just six months after becoming a publicly traded company protests forced Hyatt Hotels to suspend its first shareholders meeting here.
APALA leader John Delloro mourned
The labor movement mouns the passing of leader John Delloro, president of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance.
America's Future NOW! panel calls for clean energy
"There is a clear link between clean energy and economic development," Ron Ruggiero, field director for the Apollo Alliance, told workshop participants here at the America's Future NOW! conference June 8.
