AFL-CIO Chief: Trump Has Opposed Every Increase in the Minimum Wage
In an interview ahead of Labor Day, AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka said workers across the nation are suffering under President...
Category: Unions
United Electrical Union Endorses Green New Deal and Global Climate Strike
Embracing the Green New Deal as “our best hope to meet the challenge of climate change while creating millions of...
Airport workers ‘shut down the shutdown’ — and that should scare Trump: Robert Reich
While Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is getting much-deserved for her handling of the shutdown President Donald Trump instigated...
How workers are winning $15 an hour: by acting like a union
When members of Congress introduced legislation this week raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, it was in...
North Carolina’s Public Employees Seek Raise Pointing to Last Year’s Success Raising State Minimum Wage
Charles French, the president of the Greensboro City Workers’ Union, took a mic and told the crowd to go to...
Young People Are Leading a Growing Movement Against Low Pay
Strikes have taken place at McDonald’s and TGI Friday’s restaurants across the UK in recent months. These strikes are the...
Vowing to End Corporate Bullying of Workers, Bernie Sanders Introduces Bill to Restore Union Power
A new bill aimed at bolstering unions’ power and ending abuses by employers was met with loud cheers in Washington,...
The Right-Wing Billionaires Bankrolling the Effort Destroy America’s Unions
The Economic Policy Institute released a report today detailing the network of conservative mega-donors supporting the Supreme Court case Janus...
Bernie Sanders Attacks Nissan’s ‘Greedy’ Anti-Union Campaign
Bernie Sanders has attacked Nissan for doing “everything it can” to stop workers from unionizing at its Mississippi plant despite...
Union Workers Launch #BoycottTrump Protest After His Refusal to Negotiate at Las Vegas Hotel
Las Vegas, NV – Citing federal law allowing boycotts for the purpose of forcing an employer to honor their duty...
For Republicans It’s “Anti-Labor Day”
Any human being who has ever ran a business, unless it is completely “owner-operated,” comprehends that without a labor force,...
Fake Populist Donald Trump Doesn’t Stand Up For Workers
Conservative lawmakers have been pushing to pass a federal piece of legislation entitled the National Right to Work act which...
Trump’s Vegas Hotel Spent Half A Million Dollars To Stop Maids From Unionizing
GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump fashions himself a friend of union workers. He has bragged about having good relationships with...
Why the Verizon Worker’s Victory is A Big Deal
On Friday, May 27, the six-and-a-half-week Verizon strike came to an end with a tentative contract agreement. The Communications Workers...
Judge Tosses Out Scott Walker’s Unconstitutional Anti-Union Law
After long last, unions got a big win today in Wisconsin as Judge C. William Foust tossed out Governor Scott...
Why Organized Labor is More Important Than Ever
Imagine America without unions. This shouldn’t be hard. In much of America unions have already disappeared. In the rest of...
Millennials are Revitalizing Organized Labor
Millennials are often made out to be selfish and individualistic, but they appear to be taking a greater interest in...
Senate Democrats Push For Unionization Of Senate Workers
Thirty-four members of the Senate Democratic caucus including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Sen. Al Franken...
How Unions Fight Inequality and Strengthen Democracy
A new study from the International Monetary Fund concludes that unions reduce inequality and foster a healthier economy for everyone,...
Bernie Sanders Walks Verizon Picket Line
In a rare move for a major presidential candidate, Democratic hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) joined a picket line with...
Republicans Appear Terrified of Union Power
Republicans love to try out new attacks on new groups of American citizens, but when push comes to shove, they’ll...
Target Employees Score Victory, Form Union in New York
A group of Target pharmacy employees in Brooklyn, NY voted to unionize, making them the first union in Target’s century-long...
Labor Day Parades Across America Show Growing Support for Unions
The nation’s growing support for unions is a huge sign of encouragement for those who have watched the attempts to...
Labor Board Ruling Makes It Easier for Fast-Food Workers to Unionize
McDonald’s, Burger King and every other company that relies on a franchise business model just suffered the legal setback they’ve...
Approval Of Labor Unions Among Americans Jumps To Six Year High
More evidence that America is becoming more liberal can be found in a new poll that revealed growing public support...
Guitar Center Hires Professional Union-Buster To Discourage Employees From Unionizing
Last year, Vanessa Pettit and many of her colleagues at the Guitar Center store in Independence, Missouri, declared their intention...
The Anti-Union Cabal Fighting Fast Food Workers Is Now Going After Home Care
The home health aide in scrubs pushing a client’s wheelchair up the ramp from street to sidewalk may appear to...
Teachers Confront Union Buster at National Conference
When is disruption not just a super cool buzz word but something that’s actually, well, disruptive? That would be when...
McDonald’s Accused of Violating Code of Conduct in Labor Battle
After impounding the ballots for more than a year, federal officials last week tallied the votes in an acrimonious union...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon Smacks Down Anti-Union ‘Right To Exploit’ Bill With His Veto Pen
Missouri Democratic Governor Jay Nixon vetoed a controversial right to work bill (House Bill No. 116) on Thursday. In rejecting...
Obama Annihilates Scott Walker After Governor Signs Wisconsin Right To Exploit Law
President Obama released a fiery statement that called out Gov. Scott Walker for weakening the middle-class and after he signed...
Wisconsin Republicans Pass Right-To-Exploit Bill, Walker Plans To Sign
Following a heated, all-night debate between lawmakers in Madison, the Wisconsin state assembly passed right-to-work legislation on Friday morning, sending...
Democrats Blast Scott Walker For Comparing Labor Unions To ISIS
Gov. Scott Walker insulted millions of Democrats and Republicans who belong to unions today by comparing unions to ISIS during...
The State Where Even Republicans Have a Problem With Busting Unions
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner has declared war on workers and their unions—and, by extension, on fair wages and the prospects...
Wisconsin’s Forty Year War On Unions
Forty years ago the owners of Milwaukee’s meat packing plants launched a war on unions. Milwaukee’s working class is still...
‘Right to Work’ Benefits CEOs, Not Workers
Earlier this month, in the sparsely populated Kentucky county that’s home to Bowling Green, officials voted to convert the place...
Federal labor board decisions are a bonanza for unions
The federal agency in charge of adjudicating labor disputes has released not one but several major decisions benefiting labor unions...
Labor board attorney backs up claims McDonald’s violated labor rights
Fast-food chain McDonald’s illegally retaliated against workers who participated in union organizing activities, the general counsel for the National Labor...
Koch-Tied Group Pushes New Union Busting Bill in Wisconsin
Just weeks after Wisconsin’s controversial Governor Scott Walker was elected to a second term, a group with ties to the...
Walmart Threatened Workers For Trying To Organize, Judge Rules
(Reuters) – An administrative law judge found Walmart threatened employees trying to organize workers at two stores in California, in...
Walmart workers plan Black Friday strike
For the third Black Friday running, America’s largest retailer is expected to face labor protests at locations across the country....
Postal Workers Push Back Against Privatization and Post Office Closures
Union workers at the U.S. Postal Service staged one of their largest national demonstrations to date November 14, protesting fresh...
Rightwing Groups Try to Stamp Out Local Union Contracts
A rightwing legal group is suing the school district, school board, and teacher’s union in Madison, Wisconsin, for honoring a...
New Orleans Union Membership Set to Double After Hotel and Casino Workers Win
The number of union members in New Orleans’s tourism industry is set to double. The hospitality and gaming union Unite...
American Airlines, US Airways Workers Vote Overwhelmingly To Join Union
Thousands of service agents at American Airlines unionized with their new colleagues at U.S. Airways on Tuesday, making the most...
How Did New York Become the Most Unionized State in the Country?
With all the filthy lucre sloshing around on Wall Street, New York City may not strike you as a bastion...
