Labor

Labor-led alliance pressures Wal-Mart for change

September 5, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu

Unveiling a new "American values agenda" this week, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union launched a new coalition of labor unions, worker advocacy groups, environmental groups, faith-based communities and consumer protection organizations to "hold Wal-Mart...

‘Young workers: A lost decade’

September 4, 2009 By Tula Connell

Something bad happened in the past 10 years to young workers in this country: Since 1999, more of them now have lower-paying jobs, if they can get a job at all; health care is a rare...

Obama to address AFL-CIO convention

September 4, 2009 By John Wojcik

President Obama will speak at the AFL-CIO Convention in Pittsburgh on Sept. 15, the White House announced yesterday. The speech will once again dramatize the new relationship between the labor movement and the Oval Office, following...

‘Young workers: A lost decade’

September 1, 2009

Something bad happened in the past 10 years to young workers in this country: Since 1999, more of them now have lower-paying jobs, if they can get a job at all; health care is a rare...

LA car wash workers score NLRB victory

August 27, 2009 By John Wojcik

Los Angeles car wash workers fired recently for union activity won more than $50,000 in back pay today in a formal settlement of their National Labor Relations Board complaint against Vermont Hand Wash, a notorious anti-worker...