Unions hit GOP "verification" scheme
AFL-CIO President Trumka and Service Employees Secretary-Treasurer Medina are blasting the GOP's latest anti-worker gambit: Forcing firms to use a faulty employee verification scheme, called "E-verify."
Hundreds join Congress Hotel strikers at 8th Anniversary rally
Sixty workers who have been on strike at Chicago's Congress Hotel for eight years were joined June 15 by hundreds of supporters at a rally outside the hotel.
Unions take fight vs. Walker bill to federal court
Wisconsin AFL-CIO head Phil Neuenfeldt assailed the state Supreme Court for reinstating the union-busting law, called the ruling "an affront to our democracy."
Attacks on NLRB are attacks on working families
Why have Republicans and tea partiers gotten so riled up about the NLRB? Answer: Because it's doing its job.
Texas AFL-CIO meet was bright spot in dark sky
Labor leaders in Texas came together to renew the call for jobs, livable wages, human services and democratic reforms for state workers and workers across the nation.
Landmark farmworker bill on its way to governor's desk
A bill to make it easier for California's 400,000 farmworkers to choose a union passed both houses of the California Legislature.
IKEA says it's ready to talk
After receiving 20,000 complaints from people angry about how it treats its workers here, IKEA has agreed to meet with the union trying to organize them.
“Greed on steroids” at Missouri water company
American Water made $268 million in profits last year and paid its top seven executives a combined $12.5 million, but wants big cuts from workers, the union says.
Service employees join suit vs. Georgia's anti-immigrant law
Call Georgia's anti-immigrant law "racial profiling" that threatens to turn Georgia into "a police state."
Union helped hotel worker stand up to IMF chief
Several articles in the major media are discussing the high risk of sexual assault that housekeepers face in hotels. Sexual assault and harassment is rampant, maids are afraid to complain to management because of fear of losing their jobs and perpetrators think there is little chance they'll get caught.
