Unions celebrate LGBTQ progress, say challenges remain
To become more inclusive, to increase efforts to protect transgender workers and to fight for state laws that prevent employers from firing workers for their sexual orientation or gender expression.
Union leader says Congressional rules block pro-worker bills
Unions and their allies must "connect the dots" between gummed-up congressional rules and the lack of legislation that helps workers, voters, women and their allies.
Union activist sees new unity, new day for labor movement
My members, along with hundreds of labor, community, faith and student allies, have arrived to show support to fast food workers organizing for $15-an hour and a union.
Oregon contractor tell NLRB he'd rather close than clean up
A painting contractor accused of threatening, bribing, interrogating, discriminating against and firing pro-union workers went without an attorney, and ended up being the prosecution's best witness.
Justices unanimously back public employee whistleblower
The 9-0 ruling cheered the NEA, whose Alabama affiliate - the largest and most-influential union in the state - provided the attorneys for whistleblower Edward Lane in lower court arguments.
CWA'S Cohen ties fight vs. income inequality to fight for democracy
"Corporations are people in America and can run orchestrated campaigns to destroy working people. That's what gets me mad!"
Today in labor history: Mass. first state to pass minimum wage
"The industry employing her is in receipt of the working energy of a human being at less than its cost, and to that extent is parasitic."
In LA and Illinois, unions fight legal battles vs. pension cuts
The LA pension case affects 20,000 present municipal workers and the Illinois case affects 621,000 workers and retirees.
St. Louis workers rally to support fired Jimmy John's employee
Rasheen Aldridge, an organizer with Show Me $15, has been fired because of his role as a protest organizer.
Today in labor history: Hawaiian workers win collective bargaining
On May 21, 1945, the Hawaii Employee Relations Act was signed, guaranteeing the predominantly Native Hawaiian and Asian immigrant pineapple and sugar workers the right to bargain collectively.
