Cablevision workers release new music video
In honor of Labor Day, the workers released a new music video, called "Strike."
Battle of the overpass: Henry Ford, the UAW, and the power of the press
Henry Ford in particular was the poster child of anti-unionism in the heady days of strikes and strife, preferring profits over workers' rights.
The Democracy Initiative: A national campaign caught fire
The CWA created the Democracy Initiative after seeing how a combination of political factors combined to thwart pro-democracy/pro-worker legislation and initiatives.
Catholic bishops back unions in Labor Day message
The message draws both on Catholic social thought, which has endorsed unions for 125 years, and the more-recent strongly pro-worker statements of new Pope Francis I.
Governor and Senate races top labor’s political agenda
As the 2014 campaign passes Labor Day, anti-worker and anti-union governors, all right-wing and all elected in the 2010 GOP sweep - are top targets this fall.
Minnesota health care workers beat down right wing court challenge
If Service Employees win, it would be the largest union election and organizing victory in Minnesota history and one of the largest in the U.S. in the last several years.
Trumka: Workers "confused, angry, frustrated, scared"
But the mass movement of low-wage workers, fighting for better wages and working conditions and the right to organize, is helping show the way out of the morass.
NLRB slams Postal Service for Staples privatization deal
And half the U.S. Senate now opposes U.S. Postal Service management's plan to close 82 more distribution centers.
Today in labor history: Roosevelt signs Social Security Act
In the aftermath of the Great Depression during which poverty encompassed 60 percent of the senior population, Social Security was a major plank of Roosevelt's "New Deal."
Teamsters battle senator’s scheme to lengthen truckers’ hours behind the wheel
"We cannot afford to add to driver fatigue by rolling back hours-of-service regulations, which were carefully crafted over the course of more than two decades."
