WASHINGTON—The House on Nov. 7 passed a bill that would almost completely prohibit the Department of Labor from holding companies that hire temporary workers or license franchises responsible for labor-law
WASHINGTON, DC — Union members across the USA are speaking out against the ‘tax cut for the rich,” said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. Trumka made his position crystal clear by
Convention delegates unanimously re-elected Richard Trumka of the United Mine Workers as president, Liz Shuler of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers as secretary-treasurer and Tefere Gebre of United Food
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah—The Salt Lake City nurse who was violently arrested in July for refusing to let a police officer draw blood from a patient without a warrant has
WASHINGTON—Teachers who spend money out of their own pockets to buy classroom supplies will no longer be able to take it off their taxes if the tax bill proposed by
COLUMBUS, Ohio—Mayor Andrew J. Ginther’s administration has reached a deal with the Columbus Building & Construction Trades Council that it hopes will increase the number of people pursuing trade apprenticeships
MEMPHIS, Tenn.—All of the about 90 workers in the bargaining unit at ABF Freight System’s Memphis terminal have signed up as members of Teamsters Local 667, the union recently announced.
WASHINGTON—More than half of American teachers say their mental health was “not good” for at least seven days of the previous month, according to a recently released survey by the American
BALTIMORE, Md.—The North American Building Trades Unions has endorsed building a high-speed maglev train route between Baltimore and Washington, the federation announced this week, after Baltimore Washington Rapid Rail, the
DES MOINES, Iowa—A Polk County judge on Oct. 30 summarily dismissed a labor-union lawsuit filed challenging the constitutionality of the state’s new laws prohibiting most public-sector unions from bargaining over
