Wage Theft: Madison Wisconsin Companies Owe Workers $724,000

An investigation by the U.S.

AFGE Calls For 6,000 More TSA Agents At Airports

The American Federation of Government Employees is calling for 6,000 more full-time security screeners at U.S. airports.

U.S. Labor Department Gets Verizon Strikers To Meet With Company Tuesday - 05-17-16

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...

European Labor Leaders to America: Please Stop Donald Trump

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.

L.A. Schools Lose Half A Billion Dollars To Charter Schools - 05-11-16

A new report from MGT of America shows Los Angeles public schools have lost more than $591 million this year alone.

Central States Pension Fund Looks To Congress After Treasury Refused To Approve Cuts - 05-11-16

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...

Civil Liberties Union Sues NY To Win Farmworker Labor Rights - Gov. Cuomo Won't Fight It - 05-11-16

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.

OSHA Faced with Diminishing Resources in Their Efforts to Keep Working People Alive

AFL-CIO's Liz Shuler On The Working Women Survey And The Issues Women Are Confronting

AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler says working women and their issues are critical in this election year.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival drags out IATSE union bargaining

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

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