July 31, 2013 By Neal Tepel To create opportunity for American workers, we must ensure that they can earn enough to support a family and afford life’s very basics. It’s…
…adversely affected the structure of American labor markets, but by doing so they appear to have had a corrosive effect on American democracy. Market purists will no doubt argue that…
July 30, 2013 By Robert G. Reiter, Jr., Secretary-Treasurer Chicago Federation of Labor The American Legislative Exchange Council is coming to Chicago. Just like the Koch Brothers, StudentsFirst, Stand for…
July 30, 2013 By Andrew Elrod – Photo by Michael Hanscom, Flickr creative commons, 2006 At the American Civil Liberties Union’s national headquarters in New York City, four months of…
…advocate for the working families that reside in Southwest Brooklyn. She has been a steadfast defender of a worker’s rights to organize, earn a living wage and live the American…
…Arkansas, for not showing up on the days he was on strike. Garrett, who worked as an overnight stocker, said he told his supervisor it was illegal to fire him,…
…Union Local 1102–in Long Island, according to Mr. Durso, who is also president of RWDSU Local 338. Before taking up the business of the convention, Mr. Durso took stock of the…
July 26, 20013 By New Jersey State AFL-CIO www.njaflcio.org/pages/news/662 While the U.S. Senate passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill on June 27, 2013, with bipartisan support, the effort to create…
…News, Virginia. The NLRB had ordered Newport News Shipbuilding to bargain with the 223 workers, but last year, a federal appeals court struck that down on the grounds that Obama’s…
…as comptroller. Just because he wants a contract here or there, as comptroller I’m supposed to be just a rubber stamp. No, I was never elected to become a rubber…
