Beginning in 1960, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and then-President George Meany of the AFL-CIO began a relationship that would help bring the labor and civil rights movements together with a combined focus on social and economic justice. Meany was…
Graham Trainor has taken the helm at one of the state's largest labor groups at a time when workers in Oregon — already a strong union state — appear emboldened, engaging in ambitious bargaining, strikes and demonstrations. Trainor was elected…
Unions help build a better life for working people, but outdated laws have hampered our basic right to join together and negotiate for better pay, benefits and working conditions. A new bill, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, would…
After decades of unfair trade policies, starting with NAFTA, that have devastated our manufacturing sector and shattered our local communities, we thank Senator Sherrod Brown for not giving in or giving up to help secure a deal that finally prioritizes…
Thanks to the Canton Repository for this write-up. By Shane Hoover CantonRep.com staff writer CANTON Daniel F. Sciury, who led the local labor movement for decades, has died at the age of 81. Sciury had been president of the Hall…
By Niv Elis and Rafael Bernal Labor unions voicing skepticism about the updated North American trade agreement are becoming a final obstacle to the deal that House Democrats and the White House are seeking to iron out. AFL-CIO President Richard…
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- While an elected mayor won’t take office until 2022, there will be two new City Council members, along with a pair of incumbents, sworn in on Jan. 6. Earlier this year, council selected Melody Joy Hart…
DISTRICT 3 was supposed to be the Republican Party’s breakthrough in the city council election on Tuesday. And then the AFL-CIO got involved. A $100,000 campaign from the state AFL-CIO to place its members on local government boards in Ohio…
As we celebrate millions of service members’ selfless sacrifice this Veterans Day, the Union Veterans Council is fighting to defend their economic rights and dignities when they return home. Join that fight today and be a voice for working-class veterans.…
While the labor movement was busy helping to elect pro-worker candidates in important elections in Kentucky and Virginia this week, union members themselves were on the ballot, and they were elected to local offices across the country at an impressive…