Labor expanding vehicle to open membership to everyone
The AFL-CIO and its Working America affiliate announced Oct. 23 that the affiliate will expand its operations to all 50 states within five years.
The teacher gap: more students and fewer teachers
Over the last 5 years, government employment has dropped by 657,000 as a result of the Great Recession's effects. It's worth considering how much of that drop has hit public K-12 schools.
International unions demand freedom for top Colombian labor
International union organizations are joining a drive to free top Colombian labor leader Huber Ballesteros "without delay."
Higher state minimum wage campaign gains steam in Minnesota
The drive to enact a higher state minimum wage in Minnesota has gained steam.
Report: 70 million born between 1980 and 2000 in big trouble
Millennials are facing double-digit unemployment rates, low wages, mounting college costs, and crippling student-loan debt.
Letter carrier honored for heroism and humanity
"From the first day I put the uniform on, I knew it was the job I wanted to retire from."
Ohio unionists want a march to protect Social Security
"Retirees are sick and tired of being scapegoats for these politicians in Washington. Social Security recipients and pensioners have already been hit hard."
The time is now for the rights of immigrants and all workers
The time for government action is now. In the days and weeks to come, labor and immigrant rights organizations will hold more dramatic actions.
South African unionists in Mississippi fighting for Nissan workers
JACKSON, Miss - In a stunning reversal of what many would think is the way things work, a support group from "third world" South Africa is in Mississippi this week helping Americans secure one of their most basic democratic rights - the right to form a union.
San Francisco transit workers out on strike
SAN FRANCISCO - Management refusal to negotiate on its own work rule demands - demands the unions say could impact worker safety - forced workers for the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART) to strike at 12:01 a.m. Oct. 18.
