PROVIDENCE, R.I.—In a move intended to protect state workers from outside groups pestering them to quit their unions, Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo has directed state officials not to release
Editor’s Note: This is Part II in a series putting U.S. immigration into historical context. Now that attention is focused on our southern border and the complex issues surrounding immigration,
BOSTON, Mass.—David Monahan, a 34-year-old service tech for National Grid in Lowell, was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his bladder in June—less than a week before the company locked
WASHINGTON—Attorney General Jeff Sessions, this past week, rescinded 2011 Department of Justice guidelines that said refugees and asylum-seekers have the right to work in the U.S.
WASHINGTON—Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, Donald Trump’s pick to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the retirement of Anthony Kennedy, drew opposition from labor unions within minutes after he was
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio—General Motors’ chief executive “would not commit” to keeping its Lordstown assembly plant in northeast Ohio open, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) said July 3.
New York, NY – Post-Janus, the toxicity of having Donald Trump in the White House could not be any clearer. That said, working men and women contending with Trump’s corrosive
Reprinted WSLC is the state-level body of the AFL-CIO union federation and helps coordinate the political and legislative efforts of roughly 600 affiliated local unions with 450,000 members in all.
WASHINGTON—Following the wave of teacher strikes this year in states such as West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Arizona, an unprecedented number of educators are running for office.
COLUMBUS, Ohio—Some Republican state legislators want to use the Supreme Court’s Janus v. AFSCME decision to revive bills to ban the union shop, but the party’s leaders are reluctant to
