unions
Steel job layoffs highlight need for new trade, infrastructure policies
April 1, 2016Over the past year, U.S. Steel has announced hundreds of layoffs in its workforce across the country.
Read more
Thousands out on the picket lines at Chicago schools today
April 1, 2016Teachers picketed outside all of the public schools in Chicago's Hyde Park section this morning.
Read more
Unions spared, for now, in split Supreme Court Friedrichs ruling
March 29, 2016Today, the Supreme Court, by way of an equally divided ruling, ended the fiercest legal attack on the labor movement in decades.
Read more
News Guild campaigns to save NYC’s top Spanish-language daily, El Diario
March 28, 2016The New York News Guild is waging an intense campaign to save the city's top Spanish-language daily from a cost-cutting jobs-cutting owner.
Read more
OSHA issues rule to curb silica dust exposure
March 24, 2016The Obama administration today issued a final rule that it says would cut workers' exposure to harmful silica dust in half.
Read more