Romney letter to big givers slams unions
Call it the battle of dueling mailers, with Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in one corner and the nation's unions, represented by the AFL-CIO, in the other.
Trumka urges white working-class men to back Warren in Mass.
Using unusually strong language, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka waded into the neck-and-neck Massachusetts U.S. Senate.
Union official scores Republican ad featuring fake coal miner
A regional vice president of the UMWA has condemned a new Republican TV ad airing in coal country because it features a coal executive masquerading as a miner.
Hoffa holds tea party responsible for "tremendous war on workers"
The tea party has taken over the Republican Party and produced "craziness" there and is responsible for the "tremendous war on workers" now being waged nationwide, Teamsters President James Hoffa says.
Romney's Bain victims set up protest camp
Workers whose jobs are about to be outsourced by Bain Capital are gathering in "Bainport," an encampment they are building across the road from the Sensata factory here.
Unionists in Tampa describe a Romney dystopia
On the third day of the GOP convention, AFL-CIO marchers painted a picture of what would be a nightmare scenario in America if Mitt Romney were to be elected president.
GOP wants government to turn its back on us
The Republican Party's 2012 platform is so radical it would have the government "turn its back on its citizens" and trash every-thing from veterans' health care to food safety inspections, a top union leader says.
Labor mounts drive to protect Latino vote
They're joined in their drive by other progressive groups, Hispanic groups - such as La Familia Vota - and labor allies.
Federal union protests GOP Ryan: He hustles for the 1%
AFGE elected Secretary-Treasurer J. David Cox, a VA hospital worker from North Carolina, as their new president on August 15 at the union's convention in Las Vegas.
Labor to mobilize 400,000 volunteers for 2012 elections
The AFL-CIO's executive council gave final approval to a plan to deploy at least 400,000 union members to work on the re-election of President Obama.
