I thought John McCain couldn't top the insensitivity and tone-deafness of staging a PR event in Memphis, Tenn., on the recent anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death. After all, he cast the deciding vote against the 1990 Civil Rights Act, opposed a national MLK holiday and...

Sen. John McCain has a habit of voting away good U.S. jobs--not to mention overtime pay, Social Security, Medicare, our freedom to form unions and bargain and more. When the AFL-CIO started doing research to uncover John McCain's record on working family issues, it was like peeling an onion--layer...

The mortgage crisis of today is that rare public policy issue that lends itself to a simple and utterly foolproof prescription: Just stop it. End it. Shut it down.

After idly observing months of human misery, the Bush administration finally has decided to sit down with...

Unions. Yes, we're the folks who brought you the weekend. And we're the folks whose collective bargaining has maintained upward pressure on wages and benefits for all workers -- union members and nonmembers.

We're also the folks who fought for and helped win legislation that has brought out the best...

Earlier this month, Steve Skvara, a disabled, retired steel worker who can't afford his wife's health care, shook the AFL-CIO's Presidential Candidates Forum by asking tearfully, "What's wrong with America?"

We should all be asking that question today.

We've got six coal miners trapped beneath more...

The late Sen. Paul Wellstone once said, "Politics isn't about money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives."

By that standard, our nation's political system isn't working very well for working people. Our middle class is shrinking, and the current generation of young people is the...

President Dwight D. Eisenhower famously said: "Only a fool would try to deprive working men and women of the right to join a union of their choice."

Eisenhower was a tough-as-nails general in World War II, a two-term commander-in-chief who presided over one of our nation's most prosperous and vibrant...

There's been quite a bit of talk lately about the Employee Free Choice Act--from supporters on Capitol Hill to opponents paid by corporate front groups. Take a minute to listen to workers on the front lines of the fight to restore workers' freedom to bargain for a better life.

You know the "thumping" President Bush acknowledged Wednesday? Union voters delivered it.

A close look at exit polling shows the rest of the country split evenly, 49-49 percent, between votes for Democrats and Republicans. But Democrats won the union vote by huge margins--by 30 percentage points among union household voters...

The Bush administration's attack on working people just hit a peak when the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) broadened the definition of who can be considered a supervisor and therefore denied federal labor law protection.

Essentially, Bush's labor board gave employers a road map to block workers' freedom...

We're at war. Wages are stagnant. Gasoline prices have doubled since 2001. Pensions are disappearing. Health coverage is slipping out of reach. Parts of New Orleans remain uninhabitable.

So congressional leaders decide to debate unpassable constitutional amendments barring flag-burning and same-sex marriage.

The minimum wage hasn't increased since 1997. Still...

President Bush and his allies in Congress are getting ready to deliver another juicy gift to their rich friends—repeal of the estate tax, which applies only to estates worth more than $2 million (or $4 million for married couples). The House has passed the repeal, and the Senate could...

Every person who works in this country--regardless where he or she was born and regardless how long he or she has been here--must be entitled to the full range of workplace and civil rights America provides. It's not enough to stop U.S. House leaders from turning undocumented immigrants and the...