After Senate loss, fast-track fight shifts to House
Labor is increasing its attention on the GOP-run House, where the vote is expected to be much closer and up for grabs.
Right-to-work loses in Illinois house, heads for Missouri veto
In a rebuke to GOP Gov. Bruce Rauner's anti-worker agenda, the Democratic-run Illinois House voted his bill down.
Rail unions weigh in with more analysis on Amtrak crash
Why was there a one-person train crew and no Positive Train Control system?
Nurses celebrate their day by protesting in Washington
Nurses support legislation to mandate minimum nurse-to-patient ratios and for full collective bargaining rights for nurses employed at the VA.
Missouri unionists, businesses, officials mobilize vs. 'right-to-work'
They packed the Small Business Committee hearing room and offered detailed testimony on the benefits of unionization and the harm such a law would cause.
West Virginia workers launch "insurrection" in state capital
Demonstrators protesting the national wave of wage and safety cuts and anti-union assaults, were led by the West Virginia AFL-CIO and joined by national labor leaders.
GOP House panel OK's partisan rewrite of education law
"In reality, it would rob poor and struggling students of the resources, supports, and funding they need to succeed."
Today in labor history: The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993
The FMLA was intended "to balance the demands of the workplace with the needs of families."
San Francisco supervisors pass first-ever Retail Workers Bill of Rights
The pioneering Retail Workers Bill of Rights will give an estimated 40,000 hourly workers greater stability in their schedules and hours.
USW rolls out platform, denounces greedy forces out to destroy workers
Delegates adopted a multi-point action platform for coming years to battle what President Gerard called "shrewd, greedy and powerful" forces out to destroy workers.
