workers rights

Biden: GOP doesn’t understand middle class

February 3, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Most of his speech alternated between jabs at GOP leaders, and defense of the Obama administration's actions.

U.S. steelworkers campaign to free Colombian political prisoners

February 3, 2012 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

"We are working in close conjunction with Justice for Colombia in Great Britain on the political prisoners campaign," says USW Senior Counsel Dan Kovalik.

GOP forces anti-labor provisions into transport bills

February 3, 2012 By John Wojcik

That rewrite, an attempt to end a fight over union recognition votes at airlines and railroads, ended up leaving workers and their unions with the short end of the stick.

Arizona next battleground in workers’ rights war

February 2, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Neither the state AFL-CIO's efforts nor the special election recall loss in November of a key radical right ally stopped GOP Gov. Jan Brewer

Thousands join picket lines at Kaiser Permanente’s California hospitals

February 1, 2012 By Marilyn Bechtel

Thousands of workers at Kaiser Permanente facilities across California marched on picket lines.