workers rights

AFL-CIO Vice President Gebre: What does it mean to be American?

August 30, 2016 By Jackie Tortora

Tefere Gebre has been a proud union member for most of his life, valuing the freedom of people to come together in union.

“Lakeland Ledger” newsroom staff vote to join News Guild-CWA

August 16, 2016 By PAI

The staff hand-signed and posted an open letter saying they want to work for a quality newspaper, but the corporation mandated layoffs and unfilled positions.

Tenacious Chicago Reader staff buckles in for arduous negotiations

August 16, 2016 By Patrick J. Foote

With alt-weekly newspapers shutting down across the country, unionized Chicago Reader staff seek to buck the trend, negotiate first collective agreement.

The Powell Memo and the war on workers

August 12, 2016 By Mark Gruenberg

In 1971, Lewis Powell, well-connected conservative corporate lawyer, wrote a document that has changed our lives for 45 years.

Analyst: Adults, not teens, are lopsided majority of minimum wage workers

August 12, 2016 By PAI

Researcher Monica Garcia-Perez presented her findings to an AFL-CIO-co-sponsored conference on race, income and inequality.