by admin | Mar 10, 2013 | In the News
Labor’s Turnaround The AFL-CIO has a plan to save the movement. BY David Moberg The mood at the meeting, one AFL-CIO top staffer said, was that the future of the labor movement was at risk if they continued “business as usual.” As I waited outside the AFL-CIO’s...
by admin | Mar 9, 2013 | In the News
March 1, 2013 — Leslie Moody Washington, D.C. is so stalled with fiscal crises and gridlock that reformers may find more success at City Hall than in the nation’s Capitol. Case in point: climate change. While many were cheered by its prominence in President...
by admin | Mar 8, 2013 | In the News
Within a week of November’s hard-fought elections, the AFL-CIO and many of its member unions had already started a new campaign. It wasn’t linked to the 2016 presidential race, or any election. It was a campaign to make sure that the politicians whom labor unions had...
by admin | Mar 8, 2013 | In the News
From the International Transport Workers’ Federation: The ITF is keeping the vessel Long Beach under observation after it reportedly loaded at the Mitsui-UGC terminal at the port of Vancouver, Washington State, USA, where unionised dock workers are currently locked...
by admin | Mar 7, 2013 | In the News
Alleging unpaid wages and repeated retaliation, McDonald’s workers in central Pennsylvania launched a surprise strike at 11 this morning. The strikers are student guest workers from Latin America and Asia, brought to the United States under the controversial J-1...
