Labor News

Working people are the overwhelming majority in America and yet our issues have taken a back seat in this presidential election.

United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard says these are the issues whoever becomes president-elect on November 8th, should focus on to really help working families.

[Leo Gerard]: "I would like to see the revitalization and passage of the Employee Free Choice Act as a minimum. I think we need to have a national campaign to raise the national minimum wage to a living wage.

California Teacher's Association President Eric Heins says educators are with Secretary Clinton for President because she has demonstrated a lifelong commitment to kids and education.

[Eric Heins]: "Secretary Clinton has had a history of working for children for her entire career. And so from an education al perspective - she has come to talk to us at a national level - and I think she will make a pretty good president. So I'm with her, very clearly. And not just because I'm against Trump, but because I'm actually with her."

Defense contract workers staged a strike Tuesday at the Port of Los Angeles over mis-classification of workers.

The strike happened on the day President Obama's Executive Order protecting low-wage workers from wage theft took effect.

Good Jobs Nation marked the occasion by launching a first of its kind hotline National Wage Theft Hotline where workers can report wage theft and get legal defense against it.

A new AFL-CIO report on the TPP and Migrant workers says the TPP trade agreement is bad for workers and displaces migrant workers, impacting the U.S. immigration system.

AFL-CIO Trade and Globalization specialist Celeste Drake.

750 striking Harvard dining hall workers have won their three-week strike. UNITE-HERE Local 26 President Brian Lang says the union's bargaining committee believes the tentative agreement "addresses all of the concerns" raised by the striking workers.

They demanded at least $35,000 a year and an end to Harvard putting more health care costs on them.

The workers were voting on the tentative contract ending the strike on Wednesday.

Port drivers at Container Freight/California Cartage expanded an ongoing port worker strike Wednesday protesting violations of U.S. labor laws.

Some of the striking workers are being called from the picket lines for testimony in a National Labor Relations Board Trial of Chinese-owned Intermodal Bridge Transport entering its 12th day. That trial is a result of the NLRB finding merit in the drivers' assertions that they are illegally being mis-classified by IBT as independent contractors rather than as employees.

It’s time to build a better Los Angeles through Prop. JJJ, Prop. HHH, Prop. 55, and Measure M. It’s time to support leaders who will lift up the voices of working families by electing Janice Hahn and Kathryn Barger for LA County Board of Supervisors and Hillary Clinton for President.

California’s comeback from the brink of financial ruin during the Great Recession is one of the greatest success stories in a generation. While states like Kansas and Wisconsin responded to budgetary uncertainty by cutting education funding with disastrous results, California voters took a different approach, enacting Prop 30 in 2012 to boost school funding to shrink class sizes, hire teachers, bolster community colleges and fund children’s health care.

Proposition 51 will improve education and create good, union jobs

It’s been a decade since California passed our last statewide school bond to repair and upgrade our public schools. That’s 10 years of students from kindergarten to college attempting to learn in schools crumbling around them. Libraries, science labs, classrooms – you name it – California schools are in dire need of an upgrade.

Proposition 59 gives voters a chance to tell their own member of Congress to get big money out of politics and support an amendment to the United States Constitution to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. Similar measures have passed in Colorado and Montana by three-to-one margins.