June 26, 2014 By Steven Wishnia New York — If people facing retirement in poverty is a looming crisis, what can be done to help? There are several ideas being
June 25, 2014 By Neal Tepel Washington, DC – Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe had endorsed the House of Representative’ leadership’s plan to use massive job and service cuts in the
June 23, 2014 By Stephanie West Pittsburgh, Penn. – The APWU opened another front in the campaign to Stop Staples with a protest in Pittsburgh on June 17. The city is one
June 20, 2014 By Steven Weiner I wholeheartedly applaud the members of the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) who recently took to the streets in 27 U.S. cities amidst shouts
June 20, 2014 Oren M. Levin-Waldman, PH.D The conventional explanation for growing wage inequality is often referred to as the skills-biased towards technical change theory. This holds that with globalization
June 19, 2014 By NJ AFL-CIO President Charles Wowkanech Trenton, NJ – Charles Wowkanech, President of the New Jersey State AFL-CIO, released the following statement in response to Senate President
Joe Maniscalco June 18, 2014 New York, NY – For the last few years, low-wage workers around the city – in conjunction with organized labor – have agitated for “15 and a
June 18, 2014 By Thomas J. Mackell, Jr., Ed.D. Special Advisor to the International President International Longshoremen's Association, AFL-CIO This is an age of fractured jobs, a fractured economy, fractured
June 17, 2014 By Michael Mulholland, Acting President, AFSCME Local 207 Detroit, Michigan – As a retiree from the City of Detroit, and acting president of AFSCME Local 207, I
June 16, 2014 By Neal Tepel Sacramento, Calif. — Like similar legislation that is already law in Illinois, California state legislators are considering passing a bill that would address a
