The U.S. Labor Department has quietly updated policies on construction wage standards, delivering industry groups a lobbying victory and taking a possible swipe at building unions in the president’s final weeks…
COVID-19 Relief Deal an Important First Step, Much More Left to Be Done It’s been more than seven months since Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the House passed the $3 trillion HEROES…
In the early months of this pandemic, as businesses and feel-good news stories hailed America’s workers as the heroes of our time, I published an open letter to America’s corporate leaders, imploring them…
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka delivered the following remarks at a roundtable with President-Elect Joe Biden, Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris and leaders from the business community and labor movement about how to…
In an unusually caustic send-off, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee told Trump administration’s top bank regulators on Tuesday that he would be glad to see them be replaced…
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden delivered a pro-labor message Monday in three Western Pennsylvania campaign stops on the eve of Election Day. “I will be the most pro-union president you have…
Democracy is prevailing. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ victory in this free and fair election is a win for America’s labor movement. Everywhere in every way, working people are heroically and…
By STEPHEN RODRICK Rolling Stone Magazine Trump made a pledge to the workers of the Lordstown plant that he could save their jobs and their city. Instead, the massive auto plant…
As Ohio celebrates Labor Day this year, we have much to contemplate and resolve when it comes to honoring working people. The tandem public health and economic crises we face have…