Chicagoans take to the streets against school cuts
The meeting came on the heels of the announcement that CPS was cutting over $50 million from neighborhood schools and diverting it to politically connected charter school.
Teachers unions to Education Secretary Duncan: Leave!
The AFT convention has a blunt message for Education Secretary Arne Duncan: You flunk the test of helping the nation's schools and kids, so leave.
NEA’s Eskelsen-García promises tougher line on public school critics
"No commercial, mass-produced, industrial-strength standardized factory test should ever be used as the determining factor for any student or adult."
Labor movement demands immediate relief for 11 million immigrants
The AFL-CIO has demanded that President Obama take administrative action to remove the threat of deportation hanging over some 11 million immigrants.
"Workers' rights same as civil rights," says actor and activist Danny Glover
"Well first of all, I have been involved with issues about labor for a great deal of my life, I come out of a union family and my mother and my father were very much involved in organizing."
In Harris v. Quinn, labor dodges a bullet
Unlike a lobby or interest group, a union has a duty to provide a service to every worker covered in its agreement.
In about-face, lawmakers uphold Saturday mail delivery
After lobbying by the nation's postal unions - and questions from non-partisan auditors about savings claims - a key GOP-run House committee reversed course.
Another problem for Gov. Christie: lawsuit for failure to pay pensions
The workers all say Christie did not make a required $900 million payment to the state and local workers' pension plan. He wants the workers to shoulder the load, instead.
Obama continues to expand rights for LGBT Americans
The president directed the Labor Department to draft rules that clarify that the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) applies to LGBT couples, even in states where same-sex marriage is not legal.
Prosecutors: Wisconsin governor in criminal scheme
The investigation into fundraising involving Walker and his campaign, the Wisconsin Club for Growth, the state Chamber of Commerce and other groups began in 2012.
