May you live in interesting times goes the old blessing. Well for all of us the times could hardly be more interesting. As Charles Dickens wrote in a Tale of Two Cities -- "It was the best of times and the worst of times."

The nation's economy is almost in...

On Saturday July 11th, national AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Rich Trumka will join Steelworkers President Leo Gerard and hundreds of union and civil rights activists and faith leaders in a statewide caravan, march, rally and catfish fry in Arkansas to call for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act.

Union members...

After trillions of dollars in federal spending to lift our economy out of the greatest economic crisis in 75 years, we now know that besides financial deregulation and insatiable greed, the biggest cause of our crisis is 30 years of stagnant and declining wages. We also know that we cannot...

Today at noon Mayor Carl Redus of Pine Bluff, Arkansas hosted a meeting for the AFL-CIO with the Arkansas Conference of Black Mayors. Twenty or so mayors were at the lunch meeting at the Pine Bluff Ramada Conference Center.

The mayors agreed to write Senator Lincoln individual letters asking her...

The "Turn Around Arkansas" coalition held a 24-hour vigil for the Employee Free Choice Act on Wednesday, May 27.

The vigil began at Senator Blanche Lincoln's office in Little Rock where workers delivered hundreds of letters in support of the Employee Free Choice Act. Arkansas' two Senators have already...

The AFL-CIO has again intensified its national grassroots campaign to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, adopting tactics and new strategies more familiar in social movements than in traditional legislative fights.

Unlike almost all recent legislative fights, the AFL-CIO has greatly relied on real, very close to the ground grassroots...

It is almost 4am as I write this at the First Presbyterian Church in Little Rock, AR. We are almost halfway through our 24 hour vigil which began at the state headquarters of Senator Blanche Lincoln yesterday afternoon.

We are holding a 24 hour vigil for passage of the Employee...

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In the Bronx, a group of bakery workers are locked in a death struggle with a private equity firm (Brynwood Partners, www.brynwoodpartners.com) over Stella D'oro cookie company which is emblematic of the...

Nothing like having the truth on your side.

Here are complete clips of my debate the Chamber's Randy Johnson:

By now we all know Karl Rove has chosen an interesting way to spend his time and pad his pockets in the wake of his disastrous time in the White House.

He has decided to continue the Bush Administration's amazingly successful work of ruining the U.S. economy, transferring massive wealth...

No one knows exactly how to create a social movement. It happens when good, solid organizing meets a certain social zeitgeist. We know movement is preceded by good organizing and leadership development, but we're not exactly sure when good organizing turns into movement.

We do, however, know many of the...

Happy International Workers Day!

Today is the day workers around the world celebrate workers solidarity and our ongoing struggle to win fairness on the jobs and social and economic justice in human society.

It is so appropriate that Jobs with Justice would pick this day and this weekend to bring...

Arlen Specter's decision to become a Democrat makes the fight for the Employee Free Choice Act much more fluid and passage much more likely.

The labor movement will re-double our already overwhelming efforts in Pennsylvania to convince the Senator to once again support the bill that he was a co-sponsor...

From meetings with Democratic state legislators in the Montana state capitol to engaging state political leaders in Denver, Louisiana, Nebraska, Arkansas to town hall meetings all across America to meetings with faith leaders from Montana to Louisiana to phone banks and letter writing gatherings to actions by civil rights leaders...

41 years ago today Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee while helping lead a struggle of city sanitation workers trying to form a union, and ,bargain collectively with their employer.

Today, people of good will all over America pause to remember Dr. King Jr., his struggle...

What grassroots American movement can in the span of one week run 57 letters to the editor in newspapers across America, send 14,000 handwritten letters to 10 U.S. Senators, and simultaneously plan 35 grassroots advocacy events with workers in 10 states?

America's labor movement, the AFL-CIO, can. Now that the...

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has begun a global organized labor effort to help U.S. unions pass the Employee Free Choice Act.

In a letter from the General Secretary Guy Ryder to all ITUC affiliates he writes: "The violation of freedom of association and the rights to organize and...

Led by Interfaith Worker Justice, religious organizations and faith groups have been working hard for the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act.

A dozen faith groups and 50 faith leaders came together March 9 at the Methodist House on Capitol Hill to reaffirm their support for the Employee...

On February 4, 2009, 4,000 workers rallied on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC and began to deliver the cards, petitions and signatures of one and a half million Americans demanding the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act.

On a bitterly cold day, led by the AFL-CIO...