AFL-CIO's veep: With others unions can change the nation
"The union movement should join with others who are saying 'instead of building more prisons, we should be creating more jobs and offering more job training.'"
GOP filibuster kills Bring the Jobs Home bill
Once again, a Senate Republican filibuster killed a pro-worker bill, the Bring The Jobs Home Act, to extend tax credits to firms which do just that.
Nurses and lawmakers resume push for financial transactions tax
National Nurses United and the Congressional Progressive Caucus relaunched their drive for a financial transactions tax.
Government workers march on Capitol Hill
Hundreds of AFGE members marched on Capitol Hill on Feb. 11 campaigning for national and union causes.
Labor says tax millionaires to protect Social Security
"Ninety-four percent of the country pays Social Security taxes on all their income. Six percent do not. This has got to change."
Labor rolls out plan to defuse fiscal time bomb
Before the $85 billion budget cut time bomb explodes, leaders of the nation's unions are hammering out details of a program to prevent job losses and restore the economy for the working-class majority.
Gov’t. workers: Cuts would trigger new recession
Automatic budget cuts would have a devastating impact on vital services all over the country.
Union leaders to Obama: raise taxes on the rich, aid middle class
Union leaders meeting with Barack Obama on Nov. 13 urged him to stick to his campaign pledges to raise taxes on the rich and to aid the middle class.
Today in Labor History: Union formed, rich taxed, scaffolds made safer
On August 30, 1935 President Franklin Roosevelt's Wealth Tax Act increased taxes on the rich and big business and lowered taxes for small businesses
Labor leaders: GOP holding workers as hostages
The right wing, is holding workers and the economy "hostage" to their demands for continuing and permanent tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 percent.
