Administration clashes with government workers
The Obama administration and the American Federation of Government Employees are clashing over collective bargaining rights for thousands of health care workers at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Push for 1 million Ohioans against SB 5
We Are Ohio announced Friday that 714,000 signatures had already been collected, more than triple the required amount, in the drive to repeal the anti-worker law.
Unions hit GOP "verification" scheme
AFL-CIO President Trumka and Service Employees Secretary-Treasurer Medina are blasting the GOP's latest anti-worker gambit: Forcing firms to use a faulty employee verification scheme, called "E-verify."
Philly Council passes paid sick days, will mayor sign?
Around 40 percent of all the hourly-wage workers in Philadelphia have no sick days. The bill, if it becomes law, would enable workers to earn one hour of paid sick time for every 40 hours worked.
Attacks on labor end in a whimper
The third big front in the right-wing Republican-business state-by-state war on workers, in Missouri, ended when the state legislature adjourned in May.
Hundreds join Congress Hotel strikers at 8th Anniversary rally
Sixty workers who have been on strike at Chicago's Congress Hotel for eight years were joined June 15 by hundreds of supporters at a rally outside the hotel.
Unions take fight vs. Walker bill to federal court
Wisconsin AFL-CIO head Phil Neuenfeldt assailed the state Supreme Court for reinstating the union-busting law, called the ruling "an affront to our democracy."
Attacks on NLRB are attacks on working families
Why have Republicans and tea partiers gotten so riled up about the NLRB? Answer: Because it's doing its job.
Shop Talk: Organizing at Apple, winning bronze shoe
Apple workers are talking union, Wisconsin workers won a bronze shoe - and more.
Texas AFL-CIO meet was bright spot in dark sky
Labor leaders in Texas came together to renew the call for jobs, livable wages, human services and democratic reforms for state workers and workers across the nation.
