Labor mobilizes votes for health care bill
The AFL-CIO Executive Council voted March 18 to support the Senate-passed health care bill, despite all its flaws.
Women's History Month event honors women in unions
DETROIT - In Recognition of Women's History Month, the Civil Rights Committee of the Metro Detroit AFL-CIO showed the film "Norma Rae."
The guy who delivers your mail takes a labor history tour
More of us, those who labor for a living, need to understand our roots. Let me grab a beer as I take you on a field trip.
Labor, allies line up behind new House jobs bill
Just 24 hours after the new Local Jobs for America Act was introduced into Congress by Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-Calif., unions and their allies are lining up to support the legislation which they say will create one million jobs.
HomeGoods /TJX workers rally for union contract
Hundreds of HomeGoods / TJX workers with their families and supporters rallied at the company's distribution center here on March 10 to demand a fair contract to improve wages and health insurance benefits.
Plan to end Saturday mail delivery is un-American
CHICAGO — Who doesn’t love the smiling letter carrier who hands you the mail, pulls cats out of trees, braves fires, chases away burglars and engages in numberless additional acts of heroism?
"Arrest insurance execs for criminal activity," health care supporters demand
Some 5,000 activists demanding "Health Care Now!" descended on the nation's capital March 9 to call for the arrest of the nation's leading health insurance executives.
Contract ratified at Cleveland's MetroHealth
Declining patient volume due to the economic crisis forced workers at MetroHealth to accept some concessions in a new three-year contract that was ratified Feb. 12.
Unionists make citizens’ arrest of insurance CEOs
Thousands of unionists and their allies marched on and surrounded the hotel where the nation's health insurance firms were meeting, demanding a citizens' arrest of company CEOs.
Bronx town hall promotes wage, health bill
A Bronx town hall meeting promoted a newly introduced City Council bill (Intro 18-2010) that would "guarantee good wages, health care and other benefits" to building service workers.
