More than 800,000 government workers were locked out or forced to work without pay for 35 days in the longest government shutdown in the history of the United States. This needless and manufactured crisis affected real families with real financial…
The House of Representatives passed reasonable, commonsense legislation to reopen and fund the government. But Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans refuse to bring it up for a vote. Every day the federal government stays closed, hundreds of…
After failing to reach an agreement with their administration over newly imposed working conditions, including a furlough policy, the Wright State University faculty union started a threatened strike Tuesday. Wearing the union-advised dress code of “layers, layers, layers,” dozens of professors…
Source: https://www.utla.net/ With all sites reporting the tally of votes electronically, a super-majority of UTLA members have approved the tentative agreement reached this morning with LAUSD, and educators will return to schools tomorrow. These preliminary vote results are so overwhelming…
The US’s largest wireless provider encourages staff to use anti-union rhetoric and disparages previous unionization efforts Unions offer “empty promises and unrealistic expectations” and don’t act with “integrity”, according to internal documents circulated by Verizon’s human resources department and obtained…
Kenneth Quinnell, AFL-CIO The 116th Congress begins today and it features a diverse group of members who are more friendly to working people than their predecessors in recent Congresses. Not only does the new class of incoming senators and representatives…
Paul Shearon, formerly a Boeing engineer, was elected in the summer of 2018 as the president of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers. Across the nation, IFPTE represents 80,000 highly-skilled, workers in both the public and private sectors, including…
If there is a thread that runs through Stephanie Bloomingdale's life, it is this: She stands up for her beliefs and doesn't fear taking on the powerful. Like when she was a second-grader on a playground in rural Dodge County…
The AFL-CIO labor union is worried that General Motors' decision this week to halt production at several factories and cut thousands of jobs in the U.S. could be a pretext for sending work outside the country where labor costs are…
John Weber, AFL-CIO December 12, 2018 One of the country’s best-kept secrets is that the American labor movement trains more workers than any organization other than the U.S. military. Apprenticeships and job training programs represent a powerful, life-changing opportunity that…