Labor & Employment Law

Today?s the Day to Make Your Voice Heard on Health Care

Posted on June 25, 2009
      Thousands of union members, community activists and health care advocates from across the country will converge on Capitol Hill today to demand that Congress pass health care reform legislation that provides quality health care for all...

House Health Care Reform Plan a ?Crucial Roadmap?

Posted on June 24, 2009
With thousands of union, health care and community activists set to descend on Capitol Hill tomorrow in what could be the largest ever rally for health care reform, the AFL-CIO is telling House committees this week that comprehensive reform must lower costs, improve quality and cover everyone...

230 Economists Voice Support for Employee Free Choice

Posted on June 24, 2009
The Employee Free Choice Act is absolutely necessary to help workers rebuild the economy, according to a statement signed by 230 economists. In the statement, many of America’s top economists, including Nobel Prize laureates, explain why the new law to protect workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain is more than desirable?it’s essential...

TRADE Act Would Overhaul Bad Trade Policy

Posted on June 24, 2009
Today, a bipartisan group in Congress said they will reintroduce a major legislative overhaul of the nation’s failed trade policies to put good jobs at the center of a coherent global economic strategy. The Trade Reform, Accountability, Development and Employment (TRADE) Act, which has 106 co-sponsors, was first introduced last year but did not come to the floor...

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U.S., European Union File Complaint Over China?s Trade Restrictions

Posted on June 24, 2009
The Obama administration and the European Union (EU) announced yesterday they plan to jointly file a complaint at the World Trade Organization (WTO) over China’s trade restrictions on exports of key raw materials used to manufacture products such as baseball bats, contact lenses and plumbing fixtures...

Progressive Change Needs Strong Civics Education

Posted on June 24, 2009
      More than 100 years ago, a commission, charged with examining how well high school students were being taught about government, politics and citizenship, found that a poor civics education linked to the plethora of bad politicians and weak public servants dominated turn-of-the-century American government...

Employment Non-Discrimination Act ?Long Overdue?

Posted on June 24, 2009
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), introduced today by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), is “common sense legislation [that] would bar discrimination in the workplace on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression…it is urgently needed and long overdue,” says AFL-CIO President John Sweeney...

California Veterans, Union Members Want Employee Free Choice

Posted on June 23, 2009
       A coalition of veterans who are union members and other supporters of the freedom to form unions are gathering today in Los Angeles to send a strong message: Pass the Employee Free Choice Act now to give veterans the chance they need for a better life...

AFL-CIO: Stop Violence Against Iran Demonstrators

Posted on June 23, 2009
The global union movement is demanding that Iran stop its violent and deadly repression of the peaceful demonstrations following the contested re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  In a statement today, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said Iranian authorities should    cease and desist their violent repression of these peaceful demonstrations, as well as fully prosecute…all of those responsible for the tragic and reprehensible deaths and injuries...

Sweeney, Global Unions Call for Stronger Stimulus Measures

Posted on June 23, 2009
Workers are the innocent victims of the worldwide economic crisis and their governments must take stronger actions to stimulate the global economy, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney told the leaders of the world’s top economies today. Governments should ensure that their recovery measures are big enough to maintain and protect jobs and provide social protections, Sweeney told the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD’s) annual forum June 23-24 in Paris...

Employee Free Choice Will Ensure Workers Get a Fair First Contract

Posted on June 23, 2009
The freedom to form unions and bargain is critical to workers and to a stronger, fairer economy?but weak law that allows delay and stalling blocks workers from gaining the first contracts that can bring them a better life. Studies show that when workers vote for unions, fewer than half of them have a contract a full year later?and in more than a third of cases, workers still don’t have a contract two years later...

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