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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.

Labor raising an “army of 400,000” for the 2012 elections

March 16, 2012 By John Wojcik

"At stake is nothing less than our democracy itself. What the labor movement intends to do is magnitudes greater than anything we have ever done in an election before."

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...