Labor

Today in labor history: 109 coal miners die in explosion

January 27, 2014 By Blake Skylar

The coal miners were underpaid Eastern Europeans who were told not to complain about their substandard and dangerous working conditons.

Pennsylvania unions cheer blocking of new voter ID law

January 27, 2014 By Press Associates

The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO is cheering a judge's ruling bouncing the state's GOP-passed "voter ID" law, but the story isn't over yet.

Low wage workers at Pentagon walk out

January 27, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Low-wage workers at the focus of the nation's defense machine, the Pentagon, joined the lengthening list of fed-up workers who have walked off their jobs.

Union membership rises by 162k, workforce share unchanged

January 24, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Union membership in the U.S. rose by 162,000 in 2013, to 14.528 million, the Bureau of Labor Statistics calculated, but the union share of the nation's workers stayed unchanged at 11.3 percent.

GE closing upstate NY plant, betraying workers, community

January 23, 2014 By Tony Long

Despite 17 bargaining sessions over a 60-day period, GE has decided to shutter its 75-year-old plant in Fort Edward, New York.