Sanders draws roars from union retirees
Retired unionists represent the consistently largest and most-active political constituency - the elderly.
St. Louis minimum wage hike threatened
Meanwhile, the GOP majority in the legislature is pushing HB722, to ban cities and counties from raising the minimum wage on their own.
Labor board tackles another joint-employer issue, involving temps
If an employer gets workers from a temp agency and the union wants to organize them, must it first get an OK from both the employer and the temp agency?
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Ex-CWA President Cohen to campaign for Sanders
"Bernie realizes that workers' rights in the U.S. remain under attack and near the bottom of the world's democracies."
Today in labor history: airline workers strike in 1966
On this date in 1966, International Association of Machinists (IAM) members across the country employed by five airlines went on strike.
Federal workers union sues government over data breach
The cyber attack exposed confidential data, from medical records to Social Security numbers, of between four and 18 million workers.
Today in history: first U.S. postage stamps issued, and what that means
On this date in 1847, the Post Office Department (now called the U.S. Postal Service), issued its first two postage stamps.
Nurses: court decision is a threat to public health and safety, workers' rights
The case, Friedrichs v. CTA (California Teachers Association), involves a challenge supported by far right anti-union groups.
Union leaders applaud Supreme Court health care law ruling
By and large, leaders applauded the ruling keeping the ACA's federal individual payments for health care insurance subsidies for users of health care exchanges, state or federal.
Unions and allies get support for gas tax hike for highway-mass transit funding
The legislation is important both for jobs creation and to repair and replace the nation's crumbling infrastructure and to repair, replace and upgrade bus and subway systems.
