AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka says American workers need a president who sees workers as "partners to be engaged, not as subjects to be manipulated."

Trumka says workers don't need a savior to speak for us, we want to raise up our own voices through unions.

The biggest political lesson Democrats have to understand is that the November election was lost in the industrial Midwest because for decades Democrats failed to meet the real needs of working people.

The Electoral College cast it's votes for Trump for President Monday - using a system set up by slave owners designed to override the power of the popular vote.

Wednesday’s decision by the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates is unwelcome and unnecessary. As admitted in its statement, investment remains soft, growth is only moderate and inflation expectations are little changed. Moreover, the economy confronts financial head-winds from the recent jump in long-term interest rates and an even stronger dollar.

Fight For $15 movement supporters in New York City are using a Workers Forum to begin to chart the course for making $15 an hour real in New York.