Labor

“Ramp up our pay,” demand Seattle baggage handlers

January 20, 2016 By Roberta Wood

It's about fairness as much as the money, a baggage handler says; "I have to follow the law, why shouldn't they?"

Teacher sickouts close almost all Detroit schools

January 20, 2016 By Mark Walton

Nearly all Detroit Public Schools (DPS) are closed Wednesday, as teacher sickouts which began last week continue.

The “Right-to-Work” movement’s attack on women workers

January 19, 2016 By Sheila Bapat

If strong public sector union jobs are eroded as a result of the right-to-work movement's attack, this will be an added setback for women's economic status in the U.S.

Construction workers killed on the job, manager goes to jail

January 19, 2016 By C.J. Atkins

On Christmas Eve 2009, when the scaffolding they were working on broke in half, four workers were not wearing safety lines and fell thirteen floors.

Trumka on race and class: “When they divide us, they can beat us”

January 19, 2016 By Mark Gruenberg

AFL-CIO's annual Martin Luther King Conference, a 3-day event from Jan. 15-17 in D.C., was entitled "Change The Rules, Be The Power"