Labor

Please come to Pittsburgh

July 24, 2009

They say that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Maybe, at times, that’s true. This is about what is going to happen in another city, however — the home of the Pirates, Steeltown, USA, —...

Media on card check Wrong or just missing the point?

July 24, 2009

Just days after the New York Times and other media outlets reported recently that a group of senators “dropped” the majority sign-up provision of the Employee Free Choice Act, the Service Employees International Union responded with...

Trumka at NAACP: Building union power means taking on racism

July 24, 2009

Remarks by Richard L. Trumka, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, 100th Annual NAACP Convention, New York, N.Y., July 15, 2009. Thank you. Wow, after an introduction like that I can't wait to hear what I have to...

Union petitions Congress for vote on majority signup

July 22, 2009

Andy Stern, president of the 2.5-million-member Service Employees International Union, launched a national petition drive today to insist that both the House and Senate schedule an up or down vote on allowing workers to form a...

Deaths among Latino workers rise

July 21, 2009

The number of Latino workers who die on the job has risen 76 percent since 1992, even as the total number of workplace deaths has declined, federal statistics show. In 1992 the number of reported Latino...