An investigation by the U.S. Labor Department found that two dozen businesses in Madison, Wisconsin allegedly owe 275 workers 724,000 dollars in back pay. The targeted investigations looked at randomly selected restaurants and hotels in the Madison area. David King is District Director for the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Read More...
The American Federation of Government Employees is calling for 6,000 more full-time security screeners at U.S. airports. The union says Congress must pass emergency funding to address years of budget cuts. Read More...
Verizon workers on strike since April 13th will bargain again with the company Tuesday as the Obama administration gets involved in efforts to settle the strike. U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez met with Verizon, CWA President Chris Shelton and IBEW President Lonnie Stephenson over the weekend. Read More...
When leaders from European labor unions descended on Washington earlier this week, they had one simple message for their American counterparts: Dear lord, please find a way to stop Donald Trump.
The AFL-CIO convened a conference this week titled "Labor, Politics, and the Threat from the Right: A Trans-Atlantic Discussion." Predictably, one element of that threat was the unexpected rise of Trump as the presumptive Republican nominee. Read more
A new report from MGT of America shows Los Angeles public schools have lost more than $591 million this year alone. Donald Cohen, Executive Director of In The Public Interest, says it's a staggering figure and if doesn't change immediately "the entire educational system in Los Angeles will be in a financial crisis. Read More...
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...
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. Aadhithi Padmanabhan is a Legal Fellow with the New York Civil Liberties Union. Read More...
In 2016, we are reflecting on where we have come and where we are going. It is the 45th anniversary of the opening of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration; the 25th year the AFL-CIO has produced the Death on the Job report; and an election year.
AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler says working women and their issues are critical in this election year. The AFL-CIO is releasing results of its National Survey of Working Women highlighting those issues and providing direction for for both the labor movement and the nation's politicians on what working women need. Read More...
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