Author Archives: Jason Perlman

With great sadness, I inform you of the passing of longtime Ohio AFL-CIO Executive Board member, United Mine Worker brother, and friend, Babe Erdos. Babe began his work as a coal miner in Harrison County, OH with the Y&O company ...

Not so long ago, President Donald Trump along with many extreme Republicans promised to gut the The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act which was a bipartisan effort passed in 2010 to protect working people due to the ...

  by Julia Horowitz   @juliakhorowitz Here’s why we get overtime pay The Trump administration is wading into the battle over overtime pay. The Justice Department will not defend an Obama-era rule that would make workers automatically eligible for overtime ...

By Tyrone Richardson, Bloomberg AFL-CIO officials and other labor advocates June 28 floated some marching orders for U.S. trade representatives as they start renegotiating the NAFTA trade pact later this year. Working families could benefit “from a renegotiated deal that ...

Thanks to you and thousands of other concerned Ohioans, Senator Rob Portman joined Senator Sherrod Brown in opposing the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017, or the Senate version of “Trumpcare.” While Sen. Brown has been leading the charge against ...

Jackie Tortora, June 23, 2017 This week, Senate Republicans unveiled their vision for health care in America. We won’t spend much time going over numbers and percentages (you can read that here), but here is what you need to know right now ...

Jeremy Sprinkle June 2, 2017 Non-compete agreements and their increasing use by employers in low-wage and skilled trades industries was the topic of discussion on Wednesday, when the North Carolina State AFL-CIO held its first-ever Facebook Live chat with experts ...

This month, Brown sent Trump a four-point plan for securing the best deal for American workers in renegotiating NAFTA. “Today we are one step closer to providing long overdue relief for Ohioans hurt by NAFTA,” said Brown. “I’ve been clear ...

Donald Trump likes to occasionally pretend he doesn’t 100 percent hate unions, usually by spending time with the relatively friendly building trades unions. But for anyone tempted to believe that, check out one of the people on his short list ...

Josh Mandel has had an inauspicious start in his second run for U.S. Senate. Only last week, his own Republican party leadership added an amendment to the state budget to restrain his advertising budget and prevent him from again spending ...