I've now heard from multiple sources that the AFL-CIO and other labor unions have promised to stand firmly with Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter if he ...
Art Levine | Posted 04.09.2009 | Business
The biggest battle between corporate power and workers' rights in over 50 years starts today with the official introduction of the Employee Free Choice Act by leading Democrats in the House and Senate.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics
News that Sen. Arlen Specter will face a primary challenge for the 2010 Senate race has prompted a bit of concern among those hoping that he would ser...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics
Like Barack Obama before him, Vice President Joe Biden offered a one-line endorsement of the Employee Free Choice Act on Thursday in a speech at the b...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics
Conservative media outlets have been hammering the AFL-CIO for hosting a board meeting at a glitzy resort in South Beach Miami. But a key fact has gon...
Art Levine | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics
Despite all the scare-mongering, union strategists are growing increasingly confident that they'll be able to hold on to the few past supporters of the legislation.
AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 03.31.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Union leaders are talking about reuniting under a single, more powerful federation, nearly four years after a nasty breakup split o...
Art Levine | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics
Republican leaders and their conservative big business allies, including the Chamber of Commerce, have gone after workers' rights ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics
Two of the nation's largest unions have filed a joint complaint with the IRS, urging the agency to revoke the tax-exempt status of two organizations f...
Art Levine | Posted 03.27.2009 | Home
With the pro-worker Hilda Solis now at the helm of the Labor Department, our country will have a better chance to fulfill the vision President Obama highlighted Tuesday night.
Art Levine | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics
Big businesses and the GOP have taken a short-term, greedy look at their economic self-interest and determined they must fight the Employee Free Choice Act with all the weapons at their disposal.
Art Levine | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics
Union activists hope that when Hilda Solis is confirmed as Labor Secretary, she'll take some cues from the innovative, tough-minded prosecution in Los Angeles.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
The country's largest labor and Hispanic groups are ratcheting up the confirmation fight over Labor Secretary nominee Hilda Solis, preparing a full-ou...
Plum Line | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics
The Obama administration has notified leading labor officials that it will host them at the White House tomorrow at an event where President Obama pla...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics
The AFL-CIO, one of the country's most powerful unions, has commissioned a new poll on the Employee Free Choice Act showing that their messaging on th...
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 01.29.2009 | Business
The legacy of George W. Bush's final days in office will be degradation of the environment, endangered species and the safety of working people.
Stewart Acuff | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics
If our movement does not produce at this moment in history, folks my age will probably never see this kind of opportunity action.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 03.26.2009 | Business
If the centralized, organized mouthpiece for labor is destroyed, then so is the only advocacy vehicle available to the nonunion worker.
AFL-CIO Now Blog | James Parks | Posted 12.26.2008 | Media
This report likely won't be on CNN's "Headline News," but after five years, former workers at CNN have finally gained justice. In a decision made publ...
Stewart Acuff | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics
We all watch the counts in Alaska and Minnesota, but we can act in Georgia -- it's a place we can all play, where we can all make a difference.
The Real News | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
Ensuring a Republican majority in the Senate would mean potential blockage of the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that gives workers additional rights with respect to unions.
William Bradley | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics
While the current party leadership deserves credit for a new path to presidential power, much of the new "Western strategy" has long been championed by former Senator Gary Hart.
Gerald McEntee | Posted 11.29.2008 | Business
It's not about numbers -- it's about how the poor economy plays out for actual workers and their families. Consider what's happening at Cooper Tires, a 90-year-old company based in Findlay, Ohio.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics
The AFL-CIO and its community affiliate Working America are launching a massive, late stage get-out-the-vote effort to ensure that as many union voter...
Carl Davidson | Posted 11.27.2008 | Home
Organized labor has set its sights on winning Western Pennsylvania for Barack Obama. AFL-CIO chief John Sweeny came to the IBEW Local 712 Hall in Va...
Daily Kos | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics