Trumka says Colombia example exposes problems with trade deals
"Investors and companies have received benefits," Trumka said, "while workers have not, this has to change."
Workers in LA: tipping the fair wage balance
"People who make less than $15 an hour know plenty about money; they know what it's like not to have enough money."
To raise wages in Panama, dockers join a U.S. union
In Panama they call longshore pay "hunger wages." Workers' families live below the government's own poverty line, and some families literally go hungry.
McDonald’s wage announcement draws the ire of low-wage workers
"Millions of families working for poverty wages will continue to struggle until McDonald's pays a living wage."
Drawing on California model, nurse staffing and advocacy bill introduced
"This legislation would improve patient care by establishing minimum nurse-to-patient ratios."
USW local ratifies new pact with Honeywell, ends long lockout
The plant was scheduled to reopen Apr. 1 but the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission must recertify the workers before all can return.
Call for $15 and a union rings through Ebeneezer Baptist Church
Fast food servers, homecare and airport workers, and students gave witness to the low pay facing them in today's increasingly service-centered economy.
Workers call McDonald’s hourly wage raise a PR gimmick
"It's a PR stunt, and that stunt isn't going to pay my gas bill this month, or get my landlord off my back."
Labor returns to its roots: Bringing immigrants out of the shadows
A "key piece of the raising wages agenda is a workable pathway to citizenship" for undocumented workers.
Senate ‘vote-a-rama’ produces few wins for workers
And the wins workers got, on amendments denouncing USPS cuts and advocating paid family and medical leave, may only be symbolic.
