Labor

Six years after Katrina, unions determined to rebuild their communities

July 15, 2011 By Blake Skylar

As a reporter in this city, you can't help but hear the stories about Hurricane Katrina - even six years after the disaster.

Next Generation claim union, social justice organizing as their own

July 15, 2011 By Luis Rivas

Younger CWA union members start Next Generation campaign to organize youth into better-paid jobs and labor's social activism.

Union Summer interns work to save endangered shipyard

July 14, 2011 By Blake Skylar

"We're a pretty good team," says Sarah Mandel, one of a group of young interns working here to stop the Avondale shipyard from closing.

Shipyard workers see chance to save their jobs

July 14, 2011 By John Wojcik

Workers, unions, community groups, small businesses and others in the fight to save 5,000 jobs at the Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans are feeling better now about the possibility of a victory.

Trumka, others push jobs ideas while GOP plays chicken

July 13, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and other panelists convened by the labor federation offered ideas on July 11 on how to get the U.S. out of its persistent jobs crisis.