Labor

AFL-CIO Exec. VP Tefere Gebre addresses immigration on two coasts

September 23, 2016 By Eric A. Gordon

Do American workers lose out because of immigration? Gebre, himself a refugee, tackled the question at an LA summit on race and at the UN in NY.

Student, faculty unity win, classes begin at Long Island University

September 23, 2016 By Larry Rubin And PAI

"We made a really clear statement that you can't run a university without faculty and without students."

Washington, DC rejects worker-friendly scheduling bill; Seattle passes it

September 22, 2016 By Mark Gruenberg

The measures would make firms give workers at least two weeks' advance notice of their schedules, and make those schedules predictable.

Oreo workers take Nabisco fight global

September 21, 2016 By Patrick J. Foote

Mondelēz-Nabisco shipped 600 South Chicago jobs out of the country. Now, workers from BCTGM are uniting across borders to fight back.

September 19 Labor Update

September 19, 2016 By Roberta Wood

Incarcerated workers are still workers; VA healthcare under the gun; CWA solidarity with Standing Rock Sioux; 13 million call Congress to stop TPP; a cup of union tea.