unions

Labor pushes for highway-mass transit bill, GOP blocks

March 23, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

The bill would approve highway and mass transit construction money for the next two years, creating tens of thousands of jobs. And civil engineers say there are now thousands of structurally deficient or functionally obsolete bridges.

Workers across the country slam Verizon for refusing to talk

March 23, 2012 By Ben Markeson

Members of the Communications Workers of America, other unions and student and community allies protested outside of a Verizon wireless store.

Senate’s phony “JOBS Act” not about jobs, deregulates Wall Street

March 23, 2012 By Barbara Russum

AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka came out with a blistering statement on the Senate's passage of the so-called "JOBS Act."

State workers’ lobby day important for all workers

March 22, 2012 By Tony Pecinovsky

The immediate struggle for pay raises and collective bargainingis part of the larger, national context for democracy and progressive change.

Georgia’s anti-picketing law an attack on the 99 percent

March 20, 2012 By Blake Skylar

Unions and progressive groups are fighting a new law that would make forms of protest - including picketing and peaceful sit-downs -- a crime, the AFL-CIO reports.