Labor
“No justice, no pizza,” says AFL-CIO
August 10, 2012The AFL-CIO has endorsed a nationwide boycott of Palermo's Pizza in response to the company's "blatant disregard of its workers' choice to form a union."
Read moreToday in labor history: Air Line Pilots Assocation founded in Chicago
August 10, 2012A five-man Central Executive Council was established, dues were set, and the official motto became "Schedule with Safety."
Read moreToday in labor history … no more Hiroshimas or Nagasakis
August 9, 2012The United States dropped a nuclear bomb on Nagasaki, Japan today Aug. 9, 1945, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the only two cases of using a nuclear weapon against civilians.
Read moreSteelworkers push for jobs plank in Dem platform
August 9, 2012A program to revitalize U.S. manufacturing should be put into the Democratic Party platform this fall, two Steelworker activists told the party's platform committee.
Read moreLabor launching America’s Second Bill of Rights
August 8, 2012After years of defending itself against wave after wave of attacks, the labor movement seems to be mounting a full scale counter-offensive this summer.
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