Obama renominates his pick for labor board
Showing he won't take the Senate GOP "no's" for an answer, President Barack Obama on Jan. 26 renominated former top union attorney Craig Becker as a member of the National Labor Relations Board.
Union members march on Koch billionaire secret meeting
Hundreds marched on a secretive gathering of billionaires that constitutes the core financial support for numerous right-wing causes.
Labor Department drafts rules to protect more health care workers
Obama's Labor Department will likely bring more home healthcare workers under protection of federal minimum wage and overtime laws.
Labor takes on racism in GOP "Pledge"
The Republican Party's platform for the mid-term elections, its "Pledge to America," has a sharply racist edge.
Trumka, panel debate working-class anger and elections
"There is a class war going on in this country," AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka said during a September 24 panel discussion at the Cooper Union, "and my class is losing. We've got to turn that around."
Extension of aid to jobless should pass Senate Tuesday
Democrats are expected to have the 60 votes needed to cut off a GOP filibuster against extension of unemployment benefits.
Wal-Mart makes deal with unions on Chicago stores
Wal-Mart makes a deal with Chicago unions on wages, community development fund and PLAs -- Project-Labor Agreements -- after a six-year bruising battle.
Federal labor law regulator hits GOP on filibuster
The chair of the National Labor Relations Board yesterday came closer to taking an openly pro-labor stand than has any federal regulator in history when she blasted the "political paralysis" fostered by the GOP.
Remembering James W. Ford
In honor of African American History Month, the sixth article in our series on the Communist Party's 90th Anniversary will survey a document written by James W. Ford.
Labor Dept.sends message to bosses: shape up
President Obama plans to beef up workplace regulations.
