Trade

Hoffa and Brown try to put brakes on Pacific trade pact

July 2, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

With the Obama administration moving ahead with negotiations with Pacific Rim nations, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Teamsters President James Hoffa teamed up.

Is Obama’s TPP trade deal worse than NAFTA?

June 26, 2012 By John Case

The campaign against the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement is picking up steam. TPP FTA is aimed at a tariff-free pacific rim, backed up by an extreme intellectual property rights protection agenda.

Planned new $1B U.S.-Canada bridge to create thousands of jobs

June 21, 2012 By Marty Mulcahy And Mark Gruenberg

A new billion-dollar bridge between Detroit and Windsor., the busiest border crossing from Canada to the U.S., will create 10,000 new jobs on the U.S. side, and it'll be built with U.S. and Canadian steel.

Trumka explains why workers must back Obama

March 16, 2012 By John Wojcik

"As president, Barack Obama has placed his faith in America's working men and women to lead our country to economic recovery and to our full potential as a nation," Richard Trumka said during the AFL-CIO Executive...

Obama budget draws praise, some complaints, from labor leaders

February 14, 2012 By John Wojcik

The president's budget will be ignored in the GOP-run House, where Budget Committee Chairm Paul Ryan, R-Wis., intends to draft a proposal, which is expected to push killing of Medicare as we know it.