McDonald’s to workers: Get a second job and go without heat
McDonald's aims to "help" its workers who make, on average, $8.25 per hour - not by raising their salaries, but by telling them how to budget their income.
Pennsylvania American Water slapped by NLRB
Pennsylvania American Water, subsidiary of one of the nation's richest utilities, apparently isn't content with letting its executives feed at the ratepayers' trough, the Utility Workers note.
Sweatshops in America? Yes, at T-Mobile call centers
T-Mobile call center employees are forced to work in a highly stressful setting that demands they meet unrealistic quotas with only a short amount of time to handle customer requests.
Today in labor history: 1934 San Francisco longshoremen strike
The International Longshoremen's Association led the battle for better pay and better hours.
Canada’s conservative government presses anti-union bill
The right-wing Conservative government of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has launched yet another assault on working people in Canada.
Workers strike as D.C. city council defies Walmart on wages
The actions reflect rising activism nationwide, as one-day strikes have hit not just fast food eateries and retailers, but Walmart and its oppressive unhealthy warehouses.
Unions call Walmart’s Bangladesh safety pact “weak and worthless”
The pact was negotiated behind closed doors with a D.C. think tank partially funded by Walmart, without any input from workers or unions, here or in Bangladesh.
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.
