At a town hall Wednesday night in Oakland, California, Senator Kamala Harris (D-California) announced that she will co-sponsor Senator Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vermont) Medicare for All legislation, which is reportedly set to be introduced mid-September. […]
Unions have a lot of ground to make up. In 1983, the first year for which comprehensive national data are available, 20% of American wage and salary workers were union members. That figure has fallen nearly every year since, hitting an all-time […]
A new Labor Day report unveiled Wednesday by the AFL-CIO shows that working people are working more and taking fewer vacation days. The report is based on findings from a national survey conducted for the AFL-CIO by the polling firm […]
As a new poll shows labor unions enjoy their highest approval rating in over a dozen years, newly obtained documents reveal a nationwide plan by an alliance of right-wing think tanks to “deliver a mortal blow” to government employee unions […]
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said Wednesday that the Trump administration is divided between “racists” and “Wall Streeters” — and that it’s up in the air which side the president will land on. Unions had been hopeful that President Trump […]
In the US, 61% of adults say they approve of labor unions, the highest percentage since the 65% approval recorded in 2003. The current labor union approval is up five percentage points from last year and is 13 points above […]
Starlight Culture Entertainment Group, a China-backed firm with offices in Hong Kong and Beverly Hills, has launched a $100m development fund to enlist veteran Hollywood directors. And the company has already discretely done a series of deals […]
Due to the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey, the IATSE will donate $10,000 to the Walsh/DiTolla/Spivak Foundation to provide financial assistance to affected IATSE members and their families. Local unions and members of the IATSE are asked to […]
“Have you heard the joke about Labor Day?” writes Randi Weingarten in the Huffington Post. “It’s when Americans celebrate the contributions of working people with mattress sales and cookouts so they don’t have to think about how their wages […]
“Labour as an issue has been really absent from the media coverage,” explains Michelle Chen, contributing writer for The Nation. “Business reporting, whatever we call economics reporting now, is focused on financial markets. And we know from our everyday lives that financial markets is not where […]
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