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Labor Secretary Perez vows to grow middle class, “so help me God”

September 13, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

LOS ANGELES (PAI)-New Labor Secretary Tom Perez virtually threw away his script at the AFL-CIO Convention here, with a stem-winder speech, pledging worker protections, promising labor and the administration would do it together and with several...

Labor opens house to all U.S. workers

September 12, 2013 By John Wojcik

Resolution 5: "The AFL-CIO hereby invites every worker in the United States to join the labor movement either through an affiliate or through Working America."

Apple’s iPod, iPhone, Macs made in inhuman working conditions

February 23, 2012 By Joe Sims

Apple made over $14 billion in the fourth quarter of last year alone - yet workers in companies that supply its products overseas, particularly in China are paid low wages

Many workers to benefit in 2012 from new Obama rules

January 2, 2012 By John Wojcik

Last month the Obama administration issued some of the most pro-worker rules the country has seen in 35 years, covering union elections, hours of work and wages, among other things.

U.S. last in unionization among developed countries

November 28, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

The U.S. is dead last among 21 top developed nations in both unionization rates and union coverage of the workforce and it's not because of globalization or high technology.