Labor & Employment Law

Working People in Boston, Detroit Tell Big Banks: ?Good Jobs NOW!?

Posted on March 26, 2010
          Activists in Boston called on Bank of America to pay its fair share and restore the jobs destroyed by the reckless actions of Big Banks.         More than 200 union members and community activists gathered outside the Boston headquarters of Bank of America this week to call on Bank of America and other bailed-out Wall Street investment banks to pay their fair share to restore the jobs destroyed by their reckless actions and to stop their selfish obstruction of needed financial reforms...

Working Families Win with House Health Care Reform Fixes

Posted on March 26, 2010
After Senate Republicans failed yesterday in their last desperate attempt to kill health care reform and allow the insurance industry to control the nation’s health care system, the House last night passed the final piece of legislation that puts working families in charge of their health care...

Blanche Lincoln: Takes Working Families? Money and Runs

Posted on March 26, 2010
Justin Nickels, AFSCME’s state coordinator, is working with the Arkansas AFL-CIO for a few weeks and reports that the state’s working families are outraged over Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s latest attack on them. Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s campaign yesterday began a telephone survey asking constituents how they felt about her primary opponent, Lt...

AFL-CIO Backs NLRB in Supreme Court Case?Seat Obama Nominees Now

Posted on March 25, 2010
Last July, President Obama nominated three attorneys to fill the five-member National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). But Republican senators have blocked action on nominees to the board, which has been operating with just two members since 2008. Since then, the NLRB has issued nearly 600 rulings and five federal appeals courts have ruled that cases decided by the two current members?one a Republican and the other a Democrat?are valid...

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Shuler: Unions Must Change to Reach Young Workers

Posted on March 25, 2010
Unlike the young people on the TV show “The Real World” who live in a $5 million mansion and spend their time mired in reality TV drama, today’s young workers are living more like the folks on “Survivor,” AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler said...

Trumka Condemns Threats and Violence Directed at Health Care Supporters

Posted on March 25, 2010
There has been a frightening wave of threats and violence during the past several days against members of Congress who support health care reform. The Washington Post reports that at least 10 House Democrats have received 10 death threats or suffered harassment and vandalism at their district offices...

Senate OK?s Health Care Fixes Bill, One More Hurdle in House

Posted on March 25, 2010
The health care reconciliation bill that corrects flaws in the overall health care bill passed Sunday by the U.S. House and signed by President Obama on Tuesday, won Senate approval (56-43) this afternoon and is awaiting a House vote as soon as this evening...

Holt Baker: ?We Want Our Jobs Back?

Posted on March 25, 2010
       Shouting, “We want our jobs back,” union members and community allies rallied and marched in Cincinnati yesterday to send Morgan Stanley the message that if it can thrive on taxpayer bailout money, it needs to make sure the community prospers as well...

California Working Families Out in Force to ?Make Wall Street Pay?

Posted on March 25, 2010
The nationwide grassroots campaign to make Wall Street pay to help rebuild our economy is on full display in California this week, as working families gather outside big Wall Street banks in San Francisco, Sacramento, San Diego and Orange County. Hundreds of working people are taking part in the protests statewide, along with AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler, who will be speaking at the Bank of America action in San Diego on Friday...

Community to Rally for Laid-Off Whirlpool Workers

Posted on March 24, 2010
Members of the Evansville, Ind., community will come together Thursday afternoon to support the first group of laid-off Whirlpool workers. Some 500 of the workers will walk out of the plant Friday for the last time and head to the unemployment line as their jobs are shipped away to Mexico...

Republicans Set for Last Ditch Senate Assault on Health Care Reform

Posted on March 24, 2010
Today, Senate Republicans are dipping into their obstructionist toolbox for every last monkey wrench they can find to throw into the works of the Senate’s final action on health care reform. On top of that, they’ve decided to stick with bankers’ hours and stop work on hearings at 2 p...

Shuler: Young Workers Need Voice More Than Ever

Posted on March 23, 2010
Susan Phillips of the Berger-Marks Foundation reports on a speech by AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler at a recent women’s organizing conference. Young workers need a collective voice more than ever, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler told a group of women activists last week in New Orleans...

Trade Deficit Costs Jobs in Every Congressional District

Posted on March 23, 2010
Members of Congress, listen up: The nation’s huge trade deficit, mainly with China, has cost jobs in every congressional district, according to a report issued today by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Contrary to conventional wisdom, high-tech industries are losing jobs faster than any other sector of the economy...

Help Match $100,000 Donation to Haiti from Union Plus

Posted on March 23, 2010
      The union movement is working to bring relief to workers in Haiti affected by the Jan. 12 earthquake and to build a long-term strategy to move the country away from a sweatshop economy to one that provides good jobs. The first priority has been to respond to urgent needs for food, water, medical attention and dry shelter...

Act Now to Help Workers in Guyana

Posted on March 23, 2010
Late last year, 57 leaders of the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers’ Union (GBGWU) were fired, without recourse, when miners at the Bauxite Company of Guyana (BCGI) exercised their right to strike after they declared the company bargained in bad faith...

House Approves Historic Health Care Reform

Posted on March 22, 2010
In an historic vote more than 60 years in the making, the House of Representatives late last night voted to approve (220-211) what AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka calls a ”momentous step toward comprehensive health care.” The bill survived a $100 million lie-and-distortion campaign by Big Insurance to kill it-the same kind of tactics these groups have aimed at health care proposals for six decades...

Immigrant Students Deserve a DREAM

Posted on March 22, 2010
Our nation cannot afford to lose the productivity of thousands of undocumented immigrant students, a coalition of union, student and civil rights leaders said today. A day after a massive march in Washington, D.C., for comprehensive immigration reform, the leaders called on Congress to fix the nation’s broken immigration system by passing real reform legislation, including the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act...

Top-Hatted ?Bankers? Peddle for Taxpayer Cash in D.C., and More Good Jobs Actions

Posted on March 22, 2010
      In Cleveland this afternoon, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler told a crowd of union activists outside a Morgan Stanley office: “We’re here at Morgan Stanley to make one thing clear. We need good jobs now. And we are going to make Wall Street pay...

Michigan Public Workers Save the State $16 million?and More Bargaining News

Posted on March 22, 2010
Michigan public employees save the state nearly $16 million, and more news from the “Bargaining Digest Weekly.” The AFL-CIO Collective Bargaining Department delivers daily, bargaining-related news and research resources to more than 1,200 subscribers...

Holt Baker: Broken Immigration System Benefits Corporations

Posted on March 22, 2010
    AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker told the crowd Sunday that the broken immigration systems allows employers to exploit workers.         Some 200,000 people turned out in Washington, D.C., Sunday for a massive rally in support of immigration reform...

It?s a ?Hard Land? for Locked-Out Miners

Posted on March 21, 2010
      Several hundred Los Angeles-area union members recently came together to lend support and solidarity to the nearly 600 members of International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 30 locked out at Rio Tinto’s Borax mine in Boron, Calif...

Help Stop Child Labor in the Cocoa Fields

Posted on March 20, 2010
       With the Easter holiday approaching, many U.S. children and their parents will celebrate with chocolate bunnies and other chocolate-covered treats. But for children in West Africa, Easter will simply be another desolate day of harvesting cocoa, the main ingredient in chocolate, under inexcusable conditions...

A Thousand Philly Marchers Tell BofA: It?s Time to Pay

Posted on March 19, 2010
More than a 1,000 Pennsylvania union members, laid-off workers and community allies rallied outside a downtown Philadelphia Bank America office, hundreds streamed through the bank lobby along with a delegation carrying a $145 billion check...

Trumka: Temple Takes Taxpayer $$, Should Treat Workers Better

Posted on March 19, 2010
In Philadelphia this morning, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka joined Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President Bill George in pledging the union movement's support for an impending strike by Temple University Hospital?s 1,500 nurses and professional and technical employees...

CLUW Honors 11 Union Women for ?Extraordinary Achievements?

Posted on March 19, 2010
In honor of Women’s History Month, the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) last night presented its first annual Working Women’s Awards to 11 women who have left their mark on and helped build the labor movement. The ceremony, at the AFL-CIO in Washington, D...

Health Care Reform Makes Us ?More Decent? Nation

Posted on March 19, 2010
This morning, The New York Times op-ed columnist Paul Krugman presented the straight-forward, reasoned and no-hype case why the U.S. House this weekend should pass health care reform. For one thing, he writes, the bill would end abuses like those of a South Carolina health insurance company that had “a systematic policy of revoking its clients’ policies when they got sick...

After 60 years, Time to Say ?Yes? to Health Care Reform

Posted on March 18, 2010
   This afternoon, the AFL-CIO Executive Council said waiting 60 years for health care reform is long enough. Council members agreed to actively support President Obama’s health care bill and called on Congress to pass the legislation, which the U...

Register Now for Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference

Posted on March 18, 2010
      The 2010 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference is set for May 4-6, in Washington, D.C., and you can click here to register. The conference brings together union members, environmentalists, business leaders, elected and administration officials to map out the path to green economy that creates good jobs, reduces global warming and preserves America’s economic and environmental security...

NUMMI Workers Ratify Plant Closing Package

Posted on March 18, 2010
Some 4,500 UAW Local 2244 members have ratified a closing agreement for the Fremont, Calif., plant with New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI). In today’s ratification vote, members of Local 2244 approved the agreement by a margin of 90 percent...

Seattle Construction Workers Demand ?Jobs Now!?

Posted on March 18, 2010
            David Groves at the Washington State Labor Council reports on the area union movement’s second Make Wall Street Pay rally in Seattle this week. More than 600 building and construction trades workers from the Seattle metropolitan area rallied downtown on St...

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