Doesn’t feel like shared sacrifice to Detroit’s pensioners
"We have retirees who are in their eighties and nineties - are they supposed to get a job?"
Immigration reform advocates speak out at AFL-CIO headquarters
People all over the U.S. must pressure the GOP-run U.S. House to approve comprehensive immigration reform.
Steelworkers oppose using Chinese steel for Verrazano Bridge repairs
Another local transit agency is repairing another big well-known U.S. bridge using Chinese steel, and thus not U.S. steel or steelworkers.
AFL-CIO hits Obama’s postponement of employer health care mandate
The AFL-CIO is upset by the latest health care development: a one-year postponement of another key section, the employer mandate.
AFL-CIO’s Holt-Baker, 30 others, arrested at West Virginia protest
The U.S. "is not great because of CEOs and lawyers. It's great because of working people. This is a faith-based movement, it's a civil rights movement, and it cannot fail."
Obama’s acting labor secretary calls for minimum wage hike
Saying that it would help lift up workers and families, Acting Labor Secretary Seth Harris reiterated the Obama administration's support for raising the minimum wage.
Walker’s anti-union law heads for new test in court
Here we go again in Wisconsin: Right-wing Gov. Scott Walker's anti-union law is headed for another test in the state's Supreme Court.
Today in labor history: Organizing drive that led to formation of USW
On this day in 1936, unionists gathered in Pittsburgh, organized by the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC).
U.S. threatens to yank trade preferences for Bangladesh
The recent factory collapse in Bangladesh has forced the Obama administration to decide by the end of this month whether to yank trade preferences for the country.
