Central States Pension Fund Looks To Congress After Treasury Refused To Approve Cuts - 05-11-16

The head of the Central States Pension Fund says Congress now has to act to save the Central States Pension Fund. Tom Nyhan says now that the Treasury Department has rejected the plan's pension cuts proposal the fund likely won't be able to offer another proposed remedy without Congress. Read More...

Civil Liberties Union Sues NY To Win Farmworker Labor Rights - Gov. Cuomo Won't Fight It - 05-11-16

The New York Civil Liberties Union Tuesday sued the state of New York for excluding farmworkers from the labor right to form unions and collectively bargain.

OSHA Faced with Diminishing Resources in Their Efforts to Keep Working People Alive

Expanding the Fight for Racial Justice

Friedrichs case may be history, but unions not letting their guard down

Labor History Month kicked off in St. Paul Monday with a discussion of history in the making, as panelists offered insight into public-sector workers’ recent push to breath new life into their unions and defend their right to a voice on the job.

AFL-CIO's Liz Shuler On The Working Women Survey And The Issues Women Are Confronting

AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler says working women and their issues are critical in this election year.

National Day Of Action In Solidarity With Verizon Strike As Company Demands To Send More Jobs Overseas

Thursday was a national day of action in solidarity with the Verizon strike now entering it's fourth week.

Tell Volkswagen to negotiate with Chattanooga workers UAW

Deception seems to be the name of the game at Volkswagen. As if the diesel emissions scandal wasn’t enough, Volkswagen is now deceiving working people at its plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Workers in the skilled trades division of the plant last year voted overwhelmingly to join the UAW to create a better workplace. Volkswagen executives. Read on

Oregon Shakespeare Festival drags out IATSE union bargaining

A group of 65 stagehands at Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) in Ashland voted to join the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) last June, but 11 months later, they still don’t have a first contract. Union and management bargaining teams have been negotiating since September 2015 and have yet to agree on any economic terms. Read on

California Labor Joins Union Delegation to Brazil by Angie Wei

Last week, I had the amazing opportunity to be a delegate representing the AFL-CIO to the 3^rd Congr

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