unions

AFT willing to strike if teachers are forced into unsafe schools

July 29, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

“Just as we have done with our healthcare workers, we will fight on all fronts for the safety of our students and their educators."

NEA chief: Trump’s back-to-school command endangers kids, parents, teachers

July 29, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

“We are carefully working with the school boards, the health inspectors, the parents and the kids” to determine what’s best to do when schools are supposed to start again in late August.

Arizona’s first-ever nurses’ union contract signed in Tucson

July 22, 2020 By Joe Bernick

It took 18 months of negotiations, including a one-day strike a year later, before an agreement was finally reached with the employers.

Bringing empty shoes to honor the dead, nurses descend on Capitol

July 22, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

As pandemic worsens across America they lobby for protective gear and launch new push for unionizing more of their heroic colleagues.

Hong Kong labor movement a target for U.S. manipulation and division

July 20, 2020 By Kenny Coyle

Formed over 70 years ago out of struggle with British colonialism, Hong Kong's largest trade union federation has been targeted by anti-China rioters, its leader Alice Mak says.