…he is officially running for president with a one-line statement: “Scott Walker is a national disgrace.” The Badger State Republican has earned labor’s enmity for pushing through legislation in 2011…
…produce highly-trained, highly-skilled workers at no cost to taxpayers. “As Secretary Perez has said, American apprenticeship programs are the gold standard in workforce development around the world,” said Representative Kathleen…
…a two-pronged strategy. One prong is to get the courts and the National Labor Relations Board to rule that fast-food companies exercise so much control over their franchisees that they…
…”We have to do more to address wage inequality than just the overtime rule, but it’s a key start. The trade agenda pushes us in the other direction.” Read more…
…neutral in the Democratic primaries. Trumka warned front-runner Hillary Clinton in May that it might not endorse her if she failed to oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. Read more…
…the industry into the jet age. Facing a bargaining impasse between the IAM and the five carriers (United, Northwest, National, Trans World and Eastern) covered in the industry’s first multi-carrier…
…and a shrinking market share of steel production, did its best to make concessions on wages and production level work rules, that they might keep their union. But while Carnegie…
…12 months. This spending decrease has resulted in billions saved for taxpayers. “Today’s announcement further solidifies New York State as a leader in redesigning Medicaid to meet the needs of…
…of 1920 that saw a 90% vote in favour of a fully-public transit system. People massively rejected the existing privately-run system back then and they have done that again today…
…any going on in the world—indeed, as big a fight as any in the history of humanity—is the fight now taking place between the profit system and unions….The fight is…
