A hundred National Nurses United RN's were on Capitol Hill Wednesday urging the Senate to reject the "mortal threat" of the House health care bill. The nurses say the House Republican health insurance bill is “a mortal threat to the health and well-being of our patients, and to the health security of our country.”

The nurses are advocating Medicare for all instead.

In California National Nurses United/California Nurses Association (NNU/CNA) are pushing hard for a state Medicare For All bill.

A "strong majority" of grad student workers at the University of Chicago want a union. They filed Monday for an NLRB union representation election.

Graduate Students United filed union authorization cards signed by a "strong majority" of grad student workers in six departments at the University of Chicago. Issues driving the effort to unionize include health care, workload and compensation.

The nation’s largest nurses’ union has condemned the passage of the American Health Care Act by  House Republicans as “cruel and unusual punishment” for millions of Americans.  Following the vote National Nurses United issued a statement saying the bill to overturn the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, would deprive tens of millions of Americans of their health coverage and threaten millions more with bankruptcy. 

Labor unions in Brazil have promised that the general strike that mobilized 35 million workers and paralyzed much of the country at the end of April “was just the beginning” of their fight against anti-worker reforms promoted by the government of wildly unpopular President Michel Temer.  The unions are planning actions this week in all 27 of Brazil’s states, and will march on the nation’s capital of Brasilia next week to put pressure on politicians.  The proposed austerity measures include weakening labor protections, raising the retirement age and a 20-year freeze on public

Statement from the From the Writers Guild of America:
http://www.wga.org/members/membership-information/contract-2017/bulletin/wga-reaches-tentative-agreement-with-amptp

On April 28, the unions of the AFL-CIO observe Workers Memorial Day to remember those who have suffered and died on the job and to renew the fight for safe jobs. This year we will come together to defend hard-won victories by working people from attacks by right-wing Republicans and business groups. We will commit to fighting until all workers have safe jobs and the freedom to form unions to seek a better future.

Delivery drivers who work at a company that contracts with Amazon voted today to join Teamsters Local 337 in Detroit.

The drivers at Silver Star in Brownstown, Michigan voted 22-7 to join Local 337. There are 46 drivers in the bargaining unit. Silver Star is one of dozens of third-party companies that Amazon contracts with to deliver its packages, and Silver Star is the third largest package-delivery contractor with Amazon. It delivers packages for Amazon in the Chicago area, in Texas and California and other locations.