unions

Oregon Working Families Party challenges “fast-track” backer Ron Wyden

August 16, 2016 By PAI

The Working Families Party has drawn financial and other support from seven Oregon union locals as well as Lewallen's union, the Longshore and Warehouse Workers.

Analyst: Adults, not teens, are lopsided majority of minimum wage workers

August 12, 2016 By PAI

Researcher Monica Garcia-Perez presented her findings to an AFL-CIO-co-sponsored conference on race, income and inequality.

India-born Pramila Jayapal, a fighting progressive, wins Washington State primary

August 11, 2016 By Tim Wheeler

As a Washington state senator, Jayapal championed protections for immigrants and minorities and voting rights for all, and for a raise in the state minimum wage.

Actors union lines up political support for Telemundo organizing drive

August 10, 2016 By PAI

NBC-Universal owns Telemundo, but the unorganized actors don't get residuals or health care, guaranteed wage minimums or meal breaks.

At a critical moment, labor’s cause is racial, economic justice

August 9, 2016

"The names, the hashtags represent real people in our very own community; they have jobs; they work alongside us; they have families; they were our high school classmates."