WASHINGTON, DC – North America’s Building Trades Unions’ President Sean McGarvey issued the following statement marking the end of the formal comment period on the DOL’s proposed rule to dramatically alter…
…intersections in a bid to “shut down the city” and end “business as usual” politics. “There are a lot of different unions already involved around the world and there quite…
…billion in profit for 2018, announced plans to lay off more than 300 American workers at the Peru facility and close the plant by the end of 2019 – sending…
New York, NY – Statement of American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten following reports that the Trump administration is unfairly deporting foreign-born children who have been granted special immigration…
…two or more employers, usually within the same or related industries, and a labor union. The situation is dire, and some of these troubled plans are projected to run out…
Proud trade unionists from DC37 AFSCME march up 5th Avenue. NEW YORK, N.Y.—What’s most important for the American labor movement going into 2020? Among 10 union leaders who spoke to…
…cooperation, has changed its philosophy to focus on short-term profits, Los Angeles X-ray technician Eric Jines told the American Prospect. “They are making record profits,” he said. “People are having…
…breaks from their paycheck even if the workers are not getting 30-minute breaks,” the 32BJ spokesperson said. Many of the Eulen America workers are not fluent English readers or speakers;…
…and leadership of the American labor movement. Today, many of these hard-fought cornerstones of the working and middle class are under siege. Make no mistake, as big corporations continue to…
…“standard practice in almost every developed country in the world.” Shinear Lowe, a 21-year-old McDonald’s worker in Brooklyn, says that there are times when there’s not a lot “dignity and…
