From federal agencies like the National Labor Relations Board to lawmakers in Washington and state capitals, government at all levels makes decisions that affect workers' lives. Throughout U.S. history, employers have attempted to use government as a tool against workers, while unions have mobilized their members on behalf of many significant improvements, including abolition of child labor and passage of minimum wage, workplace safety, overtime pay, Social Security, health care and many other laws.
When it comes to the issue of union fees and free riders heading towards the U.S. Supreme Court, it's a case of "here we go again." But with a difference.
Citing Republican President Donald Trump’s racism, yet another top union leader, Service Employees Executive Vice President Valarie Lang, quit yet another presidential advisory panel, on travel and tourism infrastructure
More sick chickens on consumers’ plates? More injured poultry plant workers? Those alarming prospects led a coalition of unions, consumer groups, food safety groups, workers’ rights groups and the NAACP to protest a Georgia Republican congressman’s demand to speed up production lines at chicken-processing plants.
Historic and recent Minnesota state capitol construction workers will be honored as part of the grand opening of the newly-restored building Sunday, Aug. 13.
By a 183-242 vote, the GOP-run U.S. House of Representatives defeated the latest assault on the Davis-Bacon Act and its legal prevailing wages for construction workers on federally funded projects.
The long struggle to establish earned sick and safe time for workers in Duluth has gone into more public listening sessions.
The Minnesota AFL-CIO praised Governor Mark Dayton’s decision to appeal a court ruling that invalidated his vetoes of funding for the state Legislature.
Unions, activists and advocates for better U.S. health care vowed to keep the pressure on Congress after two more Senate Republicans’ defections killed the latest GOP plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
Federal and postal union members nationwide will conduct a mass call-in to Congress on Tuesday to campaign to save their pay and pensions.
President Trump’s two nominees to the National Labor Relations Board spent several hours before the Senate Labor Committee generally avoiding answering tough labor law questions from the committee’s Democrats.
Workers are organizing through unions and other organizations to improve their lives. Union representation provides a voice on the job and the opportunity to improve wages, benefits and working conditions.
Labor still lacks coordinated approach to organizing the South