Connecticut Working Families Party sets agenda for 2012
This state's Working Families Party convened their annual meeting last week with a dispaly of strength.
EPA to hire the unemployed in Michigan
The program will specifically target Michigan's youth - who suffer nearly 50 percent unemployment rates in Detroit.
Hundreds arrested in pro-environment civil disobedience
The demonstration is the longest sustained civil disobedience action since the civil rights movement and the largest since 1977.
Public support grows for government jobs program
"Let's make our country what it should be," said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka yesterday.
Labor Day protestors demand jobs and fair trade deals
Steelworkers and 1,000 others protested against a new free trade agreement being negotiated for the Pacific Rim countries.
Federal judge temporarily halts Alabama anti-immigrant law
A federal judge temporarily halted Alabama's anti-immigrant law - a measure so harsh that it makes Arizona's notorious law and its prejudice against Hispanics look mild by comparison.
For Latinos, recession takes its toll
As millions nationwide remain unemployed and struggle to stay afloat in the most punishing recession since the Great Depression, civil rights and labor leaders note Latinos and communities of color continue to suffer the most in the country's current economic crisis.
Ohio Labor Day fests defy "economic royalists"
Boosting the fight against Republican attacks on union and voting rights, tens of thousands rallied at Labor Day picnics, festivals and marches in cities throughout Ohio.
Thousands show up for Black Caucus jobs fair (video)
Video highlights from the Congressional Black Caucus jobs fair/town hall meeting held on Aug. 31 here at the Crenshaw Christian Center with more than 500 people in attendance. An estimated 20,000 showed up for the CBC's jobs fair earlier that day.
President Obama: Unions key to economic recovery
The president of the United States, the nation's labor leaders and one of America's cultural icons teamed up here on Labor Day to boost the labor movement, which they said is crucial to any economic revovery.
