AFL-CIO leads demonstration for minimum wage hike outside Heritage Foundation
The labor movement turned up the heat today on opponents of a minimum wage increase by gathering outside of the Heritage Foundation.
What Target says in new video is not what Target means
Target has long been anti-union, and it has a new version of its hilarious propaganda video meant to scare workers away from organizing for a voice on the job.
Postal unions sign cooperation pact, prepare for joint April 24 actions
The target will be schemes to cut postal services, end Saturday pickup and delivery, and fire or let go by attrition hundreds of thousands of workers.
College athletes can unionize, NLRB says
A federal agency said Wednesday that football players at Northwestern University can create the nation's first union of college athletes.
Outpouring in Missouri Capital demands end to attacks on labor
"Today we are united, side by side; we have to stick together, because if we lose, everyone who works for a living will pay the price."
FedEx loses another driver misclassification case, in Maine
A federal judge in Portland approved a settlement saying FedEx Ground misclassified 141 drivers. The drivers will net $3.9 million in back pay and damages.
Bangladeshi workers seek support from U.S. students
"I saw many of my co-workers, trapped like a sandwich, one upon the other. It's true that I survived, but I saw many of my co-workers die."
Burlington community backs bus drivers
As public transit ridership continues to reach ever higher user levels, CCTA has opted to cripple a community by refusing to bargain in good faith with its bus route drivers.
Trumka says he'll back Obama on a new pro-worker trade policy
The death of fast-track, Obama told the Center for American Progress, gives him the opportunity to construct a new trade policy to benefit workers in the U.S. and worldwide, that guarantees labor rights, that protects "buy America" federal, state and local rules and that is not tilted towards corporations, among other positive factors.
New York City settles suit by minority firemen
A settlement has been reached in a discrimination suit filed by the Vulcan Society and the city over the use of racially based civil service tests that favored white applicants.
