“At a time of political division and hostility, Senator McCain was a maverick who was willing to put principles above party. While I did not always agree with his positions, he was a
HUNTINGTON, W. Va.—About 200 people in purple Service Employees International Union Local 1199 T-shirts marched past St. Mary’s Medical Center Aug. 13, where management has resisted its campaign to organize
ARLINGTON. Va.—The contractor that manages the Pentagon’s food court is once again being probed by the Department of Labor over wage-theft allegations. Workers in the Pentagon’s cafeteria, employed by the
QUINCY, Mass.—Three more Massachusetts towns have announced that they will deny the National Grid gas company permits for any non-emergency work until it ends its two-month lockout of more than
WASHINGTON—A possible Education Department plan to use federal funds to buy teachers guns is “insane,” American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said in a statement Aug. 23. The plan,
Fifty years ago I joined Laborers’ Local 773 in Cairo, Illinois. My first dispatch out of the union hall put me in a pick-up truck headed to a job building
PHILADELPHIA, Penn – On Wednesday, August 15th, thousands of union members from across the country joined together in Philadelphia to mount the largest protest of its kind against Trump’s policy of family separation for immigrant
BURLINGTON, Vt.—When 1,800 nurses and technical staff at the University of Vermont Medical Center held a two-day strike July 12-13, they weren’t just seeking better wages for themselves: They were
WASHINGTON—The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has begun procedures to prohibit an estimated 500,000 home health-care aides from having union dues automatically deducted from their paychecks. The proposed
MOBILE, Ala.—Workers at a Coca-Cola bottler and distributor in Alabama went on strike Aug. 9, demanding better pay for newly hired workers. About 275 members of Teamsters Local 991 at
