Ohioans kick off mid-term election fight
Warning of the extreme danger to the rights working people and to democracy if Republicans win, AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka, Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and candidates for office stumped Labor Day events.
Great day for labor: Obama goes to Milwaukee
MILWAUKEE -- There was one clear message everyone in the crowd at Laborfest here took home with them September 6: the true meaning of Labor Day.
Unions shape Missouri Senate race: GOP/Wall Street vs. everybody else
ST. LOUIS - "The right wing wants to keep America from succeeding; they want to keep the president from succeeding; they want to keep us from succeeding."
Business campaigns against EFCA in fall contests
As Labor Day approaches, business groups are throwing big money into ad campaigns to undermine pro-labor candidates.
Trumka: The elections will define who we are as a nation
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told national media the elections come down to a stark choice: leaders who stand with workers, versus right-wingers pushing a corporate agenda.
Union delegates resolve to build record voter turnout
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Union activists pledge to knock on 36,000 doors before Election Day in this battleground state.
Labor pushes for the swing vote
Pollsters are reporting that the "swing voters," most of them working-class moderates and even some conservatives, are now ready to vote against all incumbents, even if it means putting the GOP back in power.
To win in November, unions will build “people power”
WASHINGTON - More than money or anything else, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told labor leaders, "Your union members are the power."
Labor's seven “do’s” to win in November
WASHINGTON - The training was as intense as the rousing speeches here at a Battleground States Conference of AFL-CIO leaders, with a "four pillar" plan and seven "do's."
CWA takes sober look at labor's challenges
WASHINGTON (PAI)--Saying labor's current struggle "is not hopeless, just hard," Communications Workers President Larry Cohen laid out a long list of challenges his union and the rest of the movement face in the months and years ahead.
