workers rights

Steelworkers prevail in contentious negotiations

September 11, 2012 By Paul S. Kaczocha

"Our members' unwavering solidarity throughout the bargaining process in the face of management's high-risk scare tactics and demands for major cutbacks has been rewarded."

Consumers league: Plight of restaurant workers makes dining out unappetizing

September 10, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Restaurant servers don't receive the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour - they get only $2.13, the federal "tipped minimum wage." That wage has been the same for 21 years.

USW and big steel firms: pact with U.S. Steel, talks continue with Arcelor-Mittal

September 7, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Contract negotiations between the United Steel Workers and two of the nation's largest steelmakers, took two different directions right around Labor Day.

Text of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka’s speech to the DNC

September 6, 2012 By Richard Trumka

Besides Trumka, Auto Workers President Bob King and Service Employees President Mary Kay Henry also addressed the convention.

Unionists in Tampa describe a Romney dystopia

August 31, 2012 By John Streater And John Wojcik

On the third day of the GOP convention, AFL-CIO marchers painted a picture of what would be a nightmare scenario in America if Mitt Romney were to be elected president.