In the weeks leading up to Labor Day, a group of prominent Ohio labor leaders conducted a tour of press conferences around the state to discuss the presidential candidates in the 2016 elections. "There is a clear contrast for working people this fall and this election, which will be a formative one for an entire generation of Ohioans," said Ohio AFL-CIO President Tim Burga, at the onset of the tour.
The AFL-CIO says Hispanic working people are ramping up voter mobilization in Nevada.
Daniel Aranda, with IBEW Local 357 says he's ready to do whatever is needed to oppose Donald Trump and his vitriolic rhetoric attacking Hispanic working families.
Hispanic union members met Thursday at the Culinary Union hall in Las Vegas to plan how to stop Trump and support down-ballot candidates.
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced its endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president. The Teamsters General Executive Board unanimously voted to endorse the former senator and secretary of state.
It is hugely disappointing that Big Pharma’s avalanche of lobbying led to a bill stripped of meaningful provisions that was ultimately useless in shining a spotlight on drug pricing. However, we won’t be deterred in continuing the fight for this much-needed reform to keep prescription drugs affordable and accessible to Californians.
By Rachel Warino
1 in 4 Californians have experienced the worst kind of surprise over the past two years: a medical bill in the mail they had zero anticipation of ever receiving. These surprise medical bills happen when an insurer pays less for medical procedures than expected and they can be devastating for working families.
I can still recall the first time I saw what state-sanctioned discrimination looked like.
Growing up in rural Kentucky in the first half of the 20th century, I witnessed firsthand the extreme measures that elected officials would take to prevent African-American men like my father from voting.
They made him guess the number of beans in a jar. Regardless of how many beans there were, his answer was always wrong.
They made him count straws pulled from a homemade broom. No matter how many straws they had pulled, his answer was always wrong.
he U.S. Department of Justice announced August 18th that it would stop using prisons operated by private contractors such as the Corrections Corporation of America. The decision came a week after the department released a damning report which revealed higher rates of violence in private prisons, endangering both inmates and workers. Read More...
AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka told Southern California Public Radio that the labor federation is focusing its election efforts on six key battleground states to mobilize voters. [Rich Trumka]: "We'll focus on Pennsylvania, Ohio, Nevada, Wisconsin, Florida, and Missouri. And in each one of those states we have a significant voting population there. Read More...
It is hugely disappointing that Big Pharma’s avalanche of lobbying led to a bill stripped of meaningful provisions that was ultimately useless in shining a spotlight on drug pricing. However, we won’t be deterred in continuing the fight for this much-needed reform to keep prescription drugs affordable and accessible to Californians.