It's still Main Street versus Wall Street
Over the past few months, we've had conversations across our union and across our country about how to improve the lives and future of working families.
Retraining for what? Auto ripple effect hits hospitals ... and jobs
DETROIT — “Hospitals brace for next hit” ran the headline in last week’s Detroit Free Press. The article cites soaring patient debt and free care for the uninsured as reasons for hospitals losing money.
SPEECH Labor unity and overcoming racism
Remarks by Richard L. Trumka, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, at the 38th Annual Convention of the Coalition of Black Trade Unions, Atlanta, Ga., on May 22, 2009.
Union contract at Yale based on history of struggle
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Four thousand six hundred union workers at Yale University here won a major victory last month. At a joint press conference with Local 35 service and maintenance workers and Local 34 clerical and technical workers, the university announced an early contract agreement including job security and expansion of union representation. President Richard Levin admitted the university’s poor labor relations policy was hurting the institution and had to change.
Needed now: a national retirement security program
An autoworker we know is facing the possible slashing of his General Motors pension, earned in decades of work. Even with the full pension and his Social Security check, this 79-year-old retiree can barely cover his basic monthly bills.
May Day, a great time to discuss labor unity
May Day is a great time to think about labor unity.
Of long fuses and seven league boots: US labor today
I don’t know if Steven Greenhouse, of the New York Times, writes his own headlines. Doubt it.
Car talk: whats wrong, whos to blame?
The president’s declaration that the auto companies’ problems are “not the fault of the workers” is correct.
Auto workers left with no bailout
President Barack Obama said March 30 that the government will withhold additional long-term federal loans for General Motors and Chrysler unless the company, its creditors and the unions make more concessions. He also raised the possibility of “controlled bankruptcy” for one or both of the two companies.
Bread and roses 2009: Women need a union
March 8 International Women's Day was born of the struggles of women in the textile mills in our country at the turn of the last century. They fought and died for better wages and working conditions, an end to child labor, and the right to vote.
