AFL-CIO hits Obama’s postponement of employer health care mandate
The AFL-CIO is upset by the latest health care development: a one-year postponement of another key section, the employer mandate.
AFL-CIO’s Holt-Baker, 30 others, arrested at West Virginia protest
The U.S. "is not great because of CEOs and lawyers. It's great because of working people. This is a faith-based movement, it's a civil rights movement, and it cannot fail."
United Food and Commercial Workers to rejoin AFL-CIO
The 1.3 million-member United Food and Commercial Workers union will rejoin the AFL-CIO at the union's annual convention in Chicago this August.
Walmart’s firings lead lawmaker to author worker protection bill
Walmart's reversion to its normal widespread labor law-breaking has prompted Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., to introduce legislation to protect the workers.
Long Beach caregivers strike for safer working conditions
Mental health caregivers at La Casa Mental Health Rehabilitation Center in Long Beach, California went on five-day strike last week to protest unfair labor practices.
As health care exchanges near launch, labor braces for impact
Now, four months before the law's mandated state insurance exchanges launch, it appears that while some union members will benefit, others face potential harm.
The labor movement is talking - is the left listening?
All of us on the left who see the importance of strengthening the labor movement need to be fully engaged in this process.
Unions call for National Infrastructure Bank
Rebuilding the U.S.' decaying infrastructure to also counteract climate change will produce good middle class jobs and grow the economy.
Victory for workers at Baltimore Sheraton
The labor movement and its allies are celebrating the restoration of union bargaining rights for hundreds of Sheraton employees.
Ohio unions back fired teacher Carla Hale, LGBT rights
Organized labor has weighed in on the side of LGBT rights in central Ohio, starting with the strong support given to discharged teacher Carla Hale.
