Police Remove SEIU Protesters From State Capitol (VIDEO)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Eight health care workers blocking access to the Illinois House have been removed by Capitol police officers. The home- and...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Eight health care workers blocking access to the Illinois House have been removed by Capitol police officers. The home- and...
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...
Art Levine | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
If the public wants a public option and the non-competitive private insurance industry can't deliver affordable, accessible health care, what's keeping Congress from backing it strongly right now?
Huffington Post | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.23.2009 | Comedy
A new group calling itself Healthy Americans Against Reforming Medicine (HAARM) has launched a website to promote its efforts to derail health care re...
Art Levine | Posted 07.23.2009 | Business
The union movement enlisted a powerful ally in its drive for workers' rights: the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, following the guidance of, yes, the Pope.
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...
Art Levine | Posted 07.17.2009 | Business
What's especially galling is how fervently businesses embrace arbitration when it allows them to avoid being held accountable for negligence towards employees or the defrauding of consumers.
Art Levine | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics
Senators, led by Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin, are stepping up the pace of negotiations for a version of the Employee Free Choice Act that could be introduced by next month.
Danny Glover | Posted 07.11.2009 | Business
I will always be a union activist, and I am proud of that. What I am not proud of is what the fight between UNITE HERE and Workers United/SEIU is doing to this movement I care so much about.
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.
Art Levine | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
Dick Cheney's remarks Tuesday attacking the Employee Free Choice Act aired on the same day as a new coalition of religious leaders pressed the case for the pro-worker legislation.
Gary Shapiro | Posted 06.13.2009 | Business
The union promise of jobs and better wages is deeply alluring, but their mechanism to securing them, so-called "card check," is fundamentally flawed.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.05.2009 | Business
Officials with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) are calling on the new chairman of Bank of America to fire recently-replaced chairman ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics
Officers with the powerful Service Employees International Union are meeting Tuesday with newly minted Democrat Arlen Specter, a labor official confir...
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...
ZP Heller | Posted 05.30.2009 | Business
This is a huge win for progressives, who have been up in arms for months over BofA's decision to continue its shamelessly greedy, predatory practices after receiving tens of billions in bailout funds.
Robert Greenwald | Posted 05.28.2009 | Business
The economic crisis is out of control, as Bank of America and the corrupt corporate elite continue to wage class warfare. It's time we hit back hard.
Jonah Lalas | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics
Firing someone for expressing an opinion should be branded "un-American" and identified as something you would expect from a dictatorial regime
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics
Former Labor Secretary and occasional adviser to the president Robert Reich, alongside a coalition of progressive organizations, has launched a new pu...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics
The SEIU has just put up a response advertisement to the Chamber of Commerce's own $1 million ad campaign, accusing the Chamber of using stale and fal...
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Dennis Rivera | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics
In this time of economic emergency, our country needs more than partial solutions that are fraying under the weight of state and local budget crises. We need Washington's leadership to fix our healthcare system.
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins | Posted 05.09.2009 | Green
The Climate Equity Alliance represents how choosing between environment and the economy is a false choice. Strong climate legislation can, and must, be strong economic legislation.
Eric Morse | Posted 05.03.2009 | Politics
As the recipient of a $50 billion tax-payer bailout, Citigroup has come under fire for its corporate spending practices, including a planned $10 million renovation of corporate office suites and a $7.7 million bonus for embattled CEO Vikram Pandit.
Art Levine | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics
Tuesday's court decision favoring Al Franken in the disputed Minnesota Senate race also serves as a boon to the ongoing fight over the Employee Free Choice Act.
AP | Posted 07.31.2009 | Chicago