Kenneth Quinnell, AFL-CIO When Donald Trump issued a series of executive orders attacking the rights of federal government workers, he wasn’t prepared for the response from working people. Our response, led by AFGE, included filing lawsuits to stop the orders…
By Josh Ellerbrock - jellerbrock@limanews.com anet Garrett, D-Oberlin, had fighting words for Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Urbana, during a labor rally held Wednesday night in the workspace of the UA Local 776 training facility. “Can you hear me? Can you hear…
Labor 2018 is well underway in Ohio! The stakes are too high for working people to sit this Election out. Join us as we speak up together during our Summer Days of Action at a phone bank or door-to-door canvass…
The chief executives of America’s top 350 companies earned 312 times more than their workers on average last year, according to a new report published Thursday by the Economic Policy Institute. The rise came after the bosses of America’s largest…
Our Labor 2018: Take Back Ohio program will be hosting another round of events across Ohio and I hope you can make one of our eight events to hear from our endorsed candidates. You can also download the flyer of…
Last night was a great night for working people across the country. In Missouri, the voters stood up for all working people and overturned the state’s Right to Work law by citizen veto by a 2-1 margin. This victory was…
An August special election for a congressional seat Republicans have held for decades isn’t the kind of thing that would usually draw any interest from GOP leaders at the national level. But with House Speaker Paul Ryan, Vice-President Mike Pence,…
The #TakeBackOhio Labor 2018 campaign is well underway and we are conducting our second Day of Action this Saturday to elect candidates like Rich Cordray for Governor, Sherrod Brown for US Senate and pro-union candidates up and down the ticket.…
By Bruce Bostick COLUMBUS—A massive crowd, estimated at over 15,000, descended on the Ohio statehouse July 12 demanding that a rapidly growing crisis in our nation’s pension system be fixed. A sea of camo shirts and caps worn by miners…
Thomas Gnau, Staff Writer Ohio unions are under attack and need to be strengthened, Richard Cordray, the Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, told a convention of plumbers and pipefitters in Dayton on Thursday. Cordray brought a message tailor-made for unions…