Netroots Nation delegates discussed unions' role in progressive causes
Unionists at the confab included a large delegation from the CWA, a former top Unite Here activist, and AFL-CIO officials Liz Shuler and Tefere Gebre.
Wisconsin rising against right to work for less
Walker's deception confronts overwhelming evidence that RTW will further hurt a low-wage state that needs more buying power.
Google and Facebook unfriend ALEC
Funded by the Koch brothers, ALEC designs state legislation to further corporate agendas at the expense of working families, unions and their allies.
Unions to Google: dump ALEC
The public is asking Google to stop participating in ALEC's scheme that threatens our democracy.
Thousands jam Pennsylvania's capital to protest union-killing bill
Thousands jammed the streets around the State Capitol building here today to protest the latest in a sting of attempts by state Republicans to kill union rights for public workers and eventually all workers in Pennsylvania.
Teachers’ leader: ALEC kills rights for corporate power
ALEC "strips away rights" of workers and voters "in the interests of the power they represent," AFT president Randi Weingarten says.
Writers Guild to PBS: Air film on Koch brothers
The Writers Guild of America-East is demanding that a Public Broadcasting System flagship station, WNET 13 in New York, air the documentary about the far-right oil tycoons, the Koch brothers.
As groups converge on Chicago, watchdogs expose ALEC slush fund
ALEC is running a secret, multi-million dollar slush fund that pays for lavish junkets for state lawmakers and has lied to the IRS.
