…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…
…concessions from employers. Union Raids on Rivals Rise With overall membership declining, unions are often battling one another for members. The Teamsters are trying to win American Airlines mechanics away…
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…
July 25, 2013 By Stephanie West Washington, DC – The National Postal Mail Handlers Union and the American Postal Workers Union have announced plans to conduct a nationwide joint lobbying…
…he strongly argued against the MTA’s decision to use Chinese-made rather than American-made steel because it represents a race to the bottom for the worldwide steel industry because American and…
