Survey: Health care premiums continue to outpace inflation and wages
The survey confirms what most workers already feel: Health care costs are gobbling up more and more of their wages.
NLRB declares taxi drivers are employees, can vote to unionize
Taxi drivers, like millions of other such exploited workers nationwide, are not "independent contractors" but are really employees.
Experts: “New” economy is just another way to suppress workers’ rights
"New" economy workers can only be protected by policies that protect all workers, like ones that define the difference between an employee and an independent contractor.
Sanders addresses and marches with Verizon picketers
When's the last time a presidential hopeful walked a picket line?
AFL-CIO’s largest union endorses Clinton
"AFSCME members want a candidate who is committed to fixing our out-of-balance economy and raising incomes for working people."
Labor launches new measures to wipe out unequal pay for women
The labor federation is launching measures to wipe out pay inequality based on gender, and to guarantee that all workers have paid family and sick leave and fair scheduling.
Nurses, at New Orleans gathering, reaffirm backing for Sanders
"I am incredibly proud that there is finally a candidate speaking to the values I've held my whole life," said one worker.
Today in labor history: The Erie Canal unites Midwest to East Coast
Increased immigration filled the need for labor: many of those working on the canal had recently come to the States from Ireland.
Yale graduate student teachers rally for union election
Yale graduate student teachers and research assistants got a big boost in their decades-long quest for union rights.
NYC union pension systems to invest $150m in affordable city housing
Union labor will build the housing in an economically targeted investment program in all five boroughs.
