Voters say bring back call center jobs
The Communications Workers are launching a campaign in 50 legislative races nationwide around the issues of offshore call centers and bringing the jobs back to the U.S.
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.
Letter carriers step up drive to save Postal Service
Letter Carriers President Fredric Rolando is challenging his union to step up its crusade to save the Postal Service, saying that "if we don't, no one else will."
SEIU, Jobs with Justice to push higher minimum wage
The Service Employees and Jobs With Justice joined a last-minute campaign to get Congress to raise the minimum wage.
AFL-CIO: Call senators today to pass Bring Jobs Home Act
The AFL-CIO and other backers are urging the public to contact their senators immediately to tell them to vote "yes" on the bill.
CWA president: We need mass movement to fix this mess
The U.S. will stay mired in an "economy mess" of low growth, low-paying jobs, rising income inequality and worse unless it fixes its political processes.
Trumka: Labor and allies to unveil economic platform
A coalition of progressive groups, led by the AFL-CIO, will unveil a joint platform this summer.
Trumka: America’s economic lead is not a given
Below are excerpts of a speech by Richard Trumka to the Center for National Policy, a think tank that in concentrated on national security issues.
Trumka’s answer to “Are we better off?”
Former President George W. Bush lost U.S. jobs during a good economy. Obama has created jobs during the disastrous economy he inherited.
Obama to building trades: GOP blocking construction jobs
Obama's campaign for more construction jobs comes against a continuing backdrop of high joblessness in the construction industry: 17.2% in March, more than double the national jobless rate of 8.2%.
