In a historic vote, telenovela performers at Spanish-language station Telemundo have voted to join SAG-AFTRA. The vote was 91–21 in favor of membership, and this is the first time in 65 years a group of performers at a major television network sought a unionization election. The new bargaining unit will cover actors, dancers, singers and stunt performers for shows produced in the United States.
Labor leaders are joining Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee urging House Republicans to drop plans to tax worker healthcare benefits.
The GOP wants to cap the tax exclusion for employer based health care plans.
What does that mean for you? It means if you have the best employer based healthcare coverage Republicans want to punish you with an extra tax.
Labor and Democrats say it effectively raises taxes on the middle class while encouraging employers to drop good healthcare plans.
More than 11 million jobs would be created over ten years if Congress approved a $1 trillion U.S. infrastructure rebuild. That’s according to a study from Georgetown University’s Center On Education and The Workforce.
The report says it would at least temporarily revive America’s blue collar economy because more than half of the new jobs would go to high school educated and college dropout workers.
Trump told Congress he wants $1 trillion to rebuild America's infrastructure. But how serious is he about that?
North American Build Trades President Sean McGarvey told the Reuters news agency that "more frustration will build up if it doesn't come around quick enough".
McGarvey told Reuters since meeting with Trump in January the building trades are "communicating with Trump aide Stephen Miller and his staff about twice a week."
IAM Maine Lobstering Union members are buying a wholesaling operation.
Financing for the Trenton Bridge Lobster Pound wholesaling operation is coming from the Bank of Labor.
IMLU Local 207 President Rocky Alley told the Portland Press Herald that it's been a dream of the union lobstering workers for two years. A co-op like this, he says, will help the workers make more money and have stability for generations to come.
When the jobs of more than 700 mechanics and technicians were about to disappear, NFFE-IAM Local 2189 at the Texarkana Red River Army Depot did n
This Saturday is the March on Mississippi, with working people and community leaders rallying to demand that Nissan end mistreatment of its primarily African American workforce at the plant in Canton, Mississippi.
A visitor to the vandalized Jewish Mount Carmel Cemetery in Philadelphia views toppled tombstones, Feb. 26, 2017. (Dominick Reuter/AFP/Getty Images)
(JTA) — Two Philadelphia unions said they will provide free services to help repair and secure the city’s vandalized Mount Carmel Cemetery.
A massive campaign waged against U.S. Labor Secretary nominee Andy Puzder forced his withdrawal Wednesday. AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka says "It’s a reminder of the collective power of working people..."
Trumka says it also sends a message to Trump that it's time to change course completely, not double down. Trumka says Puzder's withdrawal is "great news for everyone who wants an America where wages rise, benefits are strong and unions are growing."
The Build Better LA Coalition opposes the March 7th ballot initiative Measure S. The coalition says it will ban the construction of affordable housing while eliminating 12,000 good jobs with benefits.
Ron Miller is Executive Secretary of the LA/Orange County Building and Construction Trades Council.
"We do have a shortage of housing - good affordable housing - in Los Angeles. very expensive to live here. But the existing workforce has to travel out of the city because they can't afford to live here.