worker rights
GOP pushing Labor Department to go easy on wage theft
July 28, 2014"One key to economic recovery is vigorous enforcement of wage and hour protections, so workers are paid what they earn, and can pump money back into their local economies."
Read moreAFL-CIO student interns organize on Tobacco Road
July 17, 2014AFL-CIO Union Summer interns have joined members of the FLOC in a drive to organize thousands of North Carolina tobacco farm workers.
Read moreVictory for hospital workers: $15 for 15
July 14, 2014"This is an important victory. Johns Hopkins Hospital sets the standard for healthcare in our city and that standard has just been raised."
Read more“Swamp People” carry union cards
July 14, 2014A majority of writer-producers at reality TV production company Original Media, creator of "Swamp People," voted overwhelmingly to join the Writers Guild of America, East.
Read moreUnion to be put in place at VW Chattanooga plant after all
July 10, 2014It was announced here today by the United Auto Workers union and Volkswagen employees that the UAW will begin representing workers at the plant in Chattanooga.
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