unions

Unions to Colombia: Stop murdering labor activists

September 30, 2009 By Teresa Albano

Colombian trade unionists get murdered daily with impunity. Meet a young woman who is trying to stop it.

Big-money consultants fight to kill EFCA, health care

August 28, 2009 By Seth Michaels

Behind the wide and well-funded disinformation campaign against pro-worker policies like the Employee Free Choice Act is a network of corporate funders and high-priced lobbying firms, aimed at distracting and confusing the public and the press...

Unionists protest big bonuses to bad execs

March 21, 2009 By Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON (PAI) — Chanting and waving signs saying that it’s time to “take back our economy” for workers, unionists in Washington and dozens of other cities nationwide spent March 19 protesting big bonuses to lousy executives.

Workers tell lawmakers of unionizations benefits as Employee Free Choice Act is introduced

March 11, 2009 By Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON (PAI) - Workers, economists and scholars told the Senate Labor Committee on March 10 that increasing unionization, by making forming unions easier, would help all workers -- union and non-union -- in a time of...

Two Black workers who made history

February 6, 2009 By Tim Wheeler

BALTIMORE — Helen Evans was turning the pages of an album of photos of her father, Joseph P. Henderson, when her eye fell on a picture of him as a Laborers union organizer in Washington, D.C.,...