At a critical moment, labor’s cause is racial, economic justice
"The names, the hashtags represent real people in our very own community; they have jobs; they work alongside us; they have families; they were our high school classmates."
UN human rights official cites attacks on worker rights in U.S.
"Racism and the exclusion, persecution, and marginalization that come with it, affect the enabling environment for the exercise of association and assembly rights."
The labor movement won't survive if it doesn't help Black women to thrive
Black women and girls are the future of labor, but they can't become leaders unless the unions have their backs.
Labor Dept. to coal mine owners: Pay black lung victims' claims, then appeal
The old appeal policy left hundreds of thousands of coal miners, disabled from black lung disease, usually without a penny of benefits before they died.
Labor movement vows to challenge bigotry, bridge racial divisions
With the country facing serious questions of racial justice, the labor movement hopes to foster dialogue and solidarity.
Labor backs two major actions aimed at restoring American democracy
The AFL-CIO's executive council has endorsed two coming April actions aimed at wresting control over the nation's elections from corporations and billionaires.
Immokalee Farmworkers: Boycott Wendy's for human rights abuses
The coalition wrote Wendy's a decade ago, saying the chain should pay decent wages and stop human rights abuses in the fields, following guidelines of the coalition's Fair Food Program.
Teamsters and others fight pension battle over multi-employer fund
Teamsters are one of the unions under the knife now, but 200 multi-employer pension funds covering 1.5 million American workers could be in jeopardy for a number of reasons.
Trumka on race and class: "When they divide us, they can beat us"
AFL-CIO's annual Martin Luther King Conference, a 3-day event from Jan. 15-17 in D.C., was entitled "Change The Rules, Be The Power"
Dallas marchers stress climate and wage justice
On Black Friday, we marched from the City Place Target to the Uptown Walmart to add our voices and actions to the nationwide "Fight for $15!"
