Detroit bankruptcy coming to your city next, leaders warn
Detroit is the canary in the coalmine, warned speakers at a public forum on the city's bankruptcy, held this past Saturday, sponsored by Congressman John Conyers Jr.
AFL-CIO warns Congress on immigration: no back burner
The AFL-CIO resolves to work for passage of comprehensive immigration reform with a citizenship path.
Indiana judge finds right-to-work unconstitutional
An Indiana judge ruled the state's "right-to-work" (for less) law is unconstitutional.
Elizabeth Warren at AFL-CIO meet: “If we don’t fight, we don’t win”
LOS ANGELES - Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the outspoken Massachusetts Democrat, told delegates at the 2013 AFL-CIO Convention here Sunday that the agenda of the labor movement and its allies has always been and continues to be the agenda of the American people.
Labor takes a look behind kitchen door
The second-largest private sector industry in America has a big problem: its workers are paid unlivable wages, and typically cannot eat the very food they are putting on customers' tables.
OUR Walmart shows strength in nation's heartland
Growth of OUR Walmart in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Michigan has been greater than all other states combined.
Across nation, Walmart workers protest illegal firings
Across the nation, Walmart workers struck again, and rallied with union and community supporters in some 15 cities.
Stand up for Cincinnati
What do you call a proposal that breaks promises to city workers, destroys their family's hard-earned retirement security, lowers the city's tax base and harms our fragile economy?
Fast food workers strike in 60 cities for higher wages
Fast food workers went on strike in a half dozen Michigan cities as well as over 60 cities, towns and suburbs nationwide, driving home how fast this movement for dignity and a 15 dollar an hour wage is spreading.
Thousands shut down Chicago streets at ALEC meeting
The demonstrators say ALEC is hurting just about everyone in America who is not part of the top one percent.
