Amy Dean: Labor must build "to challenge power"
To re-build the American labor movement we “can’t use the same tired old strategies and tactics,” Amy B. Dean told union members and community activists here at the Friends of the People’s World 7th Annual ‘Working Class Media & Democracy’ forum.
Trumka: more jobs solve deficit crisis
WASHINGTON (PAI) - AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka is strongly reiterating the position that creation of more jobs will increase revenues and thus solve the nation's deficit and debt crisis.
Bad news for workers: Kline hates EFCA, opposes tougher OSHA penalties
WASHINGTON (PAI) - John Kline, the Republican who will take over the House Education and Labor Committee next year, hates the Employee Free Choice Act and opposes tougher penalties for job safety and health violations.
Picket line chants tell worker's stories
Health care workers at four Spectrum nursing homes in Connecticut who have been on strike since April 15 hold a rally.
Restaurant workers celebrate “first birthday”
Instead of treating the day as a reminder of twelve months without a final victory, striking workers celebrated unity and solidarity - with a birthday party.
U.S. Steel locks out Canadian workers
The lockout is only the latest example of how Canadian government policies on foreign takeovers of Canadian firms fail workers.
Shop Talk: Bucking bosses and closing unsafe mines
Unionization victories at Piedmont Airlines, a labor/Democratic step against climate change, a federal push to shut unsafe mines - and more.
Labor volunteers keep on going in the final hours
On Election Day today union members are continuing their push right up until the polls close.
Riverwalk hospitality workers list demands
Hundreds of hotel workers from the Grand Hyatt and their supporters marched, demanding changes to make hospitality jobs "sustainable, healthy work with a living wage all through our city,
Labor law turned inside out?
WASHINGTON (PAI) - U.S. labor law "has been turned inside out, protecting the powerful rather than the powerless" in the 75 years since the National Labor Relations Act was enacted, a top labor historian says.
