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(UPDATE: Scroll down for more original video from the protests) Thousands of people gathered in Chicago today in front of the American Bankers Associ...
Andy Stern | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics
There is no such thing as a Republican filibuster. Right now, the only ones who can stand in the way of giving the American people meaningful health care reform are our elected Democratic Senators.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics
One of the nation's most powerful union leaders warned conservative Democratic senators on Thursday that there would be a "price to pay" if they voted...
Wall Street Journal | Jake Sherman | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
The death of Sen. Edward Kennedy quickly became a rallying cry for Congress to pass health care overhaul legislation. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's of...
Randy Shaw | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
Stern's optimism runs counter to the facts. No date for negotiations with UNITE HERE has been set and Stern has not publicly renounced his demand for binding arbitration.
Doug Schoen | Posted 08.01.2009 | Business
The company made famous for low prices just helped further solidify cost control as a requirement for entry in the health care debate.
Randy Shaw | Posted 07.31.2009 | Home
In a dramatic blow to SEIU's efforts to raid UNITE HERE members and jurisdictions, 15 of the nation's leading unions pledged Monday to provide UNITE H...
Randy Shaw | Posted 07.23.2009 | Home
SEIU defeated NUHW by 233 votes in their bitter election over Fresno's 10,000 home care workers, but now faces a situation analogous to the United Sta...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics
Sen. Kent Conrad's proposal for a cooperative approach to health insurance coverage has created a unique challenge for progressive health care advocat...
Bruce Raynor | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
Let's end this now. Let's get back to fighting for economic and social justice to improve the lives of union members and working families.
Art Levine | Posted 07.05.2009 | Media
Andrew Ross Sorkin and his allies on the Morning Joe show came in for a thorough thrashing from union leaders and progressive bloggers yesterday for their ignorance.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics
The labor community is ramping up the pressure on Barack Obama to intervene in what could be drastic and costly wage cuts for health care employees in...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics
Senator Arlen Specter's defection to the Democratic Party was supposed to ease his path towards reelection in 2010. But in a memo to Pennsylvania memb...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics
With poll numbers showing Sen. Arlen Specter in dangerous electoral water, union officials have begun presenting what amounts to a "get-out-of-jail-fr...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics
One of the highest-profile union leaders in the country criticized the president on Tuesday for having a double standard for the automotive and financ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics
Roughly two hours before the President took the stage for his second press conference in as many months, SEIU's president Andy Stern was spotted leavi...
Matthew Palevsky | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics
Reporting by Natasha Chen, Daniel Howes, Karen Kilpowicz, Pamela Mays McDonald, Linda R. Monk, Dorothy Noble, Elizabeth Ross, Jim Stevenson, Betty Ten...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics
Rage over $165 million in bonuses for employees of bailout-beneficiary American International Group spilled into the streets Thursday when over 100 pe...
Eileen McMenamin | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics
The President is right to signal we need to spend money on health care. We can't afford not to do it. The most expensive thing is to do is to just sit and do nothing at all.
Andy Stern | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics
Corporate interests are bent on lying about EFCA -- they'd have you believe that the bill means the end of the secret ballot, when it simply gives employees the choice to join unions -- not the employers.
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 04.09.2009 | Politics
It started with a tweet. Though the SEIU and the Chamber of Commerce are the thorniest of political foes -- and their heated opposition on the Emplo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
Officials tasked with helping push the Employee Free Choice Act through Congress are growing concerned about the possible defection of Senate Democrat...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics
One of the nation's most prominent union leaders says that working Americans were deprived a voice during the debate over the stimulus package and hou...
Jack Hidary | Posted 03.26.2009 | Green
While clean energy broadly speaking is on the table, the summit is mainly focused on power transmission -- how do you get solar, wind and other renewables to the grid?
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Posted 10.27.2009 | Business