Rail unions back bill mandating two-member crews on freight trains
"The practice to remove more persons from the right-of-ways of American railroads endangers the general public."
Baltimore unions back Fight for $15
"The same forces that want to privatize the postal system and oppose voting rights want to keep the federal sub-minimum wage just like it is."
Media fingerpointing occurs on the docks
Sometimes the conventional narrative the media tell about a news story feels so wrong I can't stand it.
Teachers union leaders split as panel starts rewriting education law
Leaders of the nation's two large teachers' unions are split on a bipartisan effort by a key Senate committee to rewrite the federal aid-to-education law.
Berkeley demonstration for $15 at site of 60’s Free Speech Movement
Low wage workers were joined by dozens of area unions and community organizations in a massive demonstration for $15 and a union.
Miners and farmers challenge Mexico’s copper giant
"The government and Grupo Mexico are making history but backwards, taking away the right to strike and the right to industrial safety."
Housekeepers on strike at Chicago’s Monaco Hotel
"I love my job, but it has been very difficult. I clean sixteen rooms every day. When I get home from work I feel pain all over my body."
Unions and environmentalists descend on DC to oppose fast track
The TPP would give firms and investors "rights and privileges" that make it safer to take production overseas to low-wage, labor and human rights violators.
AFL-CIO launches six-figure ad campaign to stop Fast Track
As soon as Congress introduces Trade Promotion Authority, the AFL-CIO will launch a massive six figure advertising campaign.
Unions make LA ground zero for raise the wage movement
Californians, from Berkeley to San Diego, were out in force in yesterday's Global Day of Action to raise the wage.
