Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter took another step in his political transformation on Tuesday, telling hundreds of labor activists that he will support legislation that would make it easier to form unions.
The face of organized labor is getting older and grayer, but the AFL-CIO's new leaders said Monday they intend to change that trend and spark a resurgence in union membership.
Richard Trumka, who rose from the coal mines of Pennsylvania to the top ranks of the nation's labor movement, took the helm of the AFL-CIO on Wednesday, ushering in a more aggressive style of leadership and vowing to revive unions' sagging membership rolls.
Vice President Joe Biden pressed the White House's agenda for a new labor bill Thursday before the nation's largest union.
The AFL-CIO said Wednesday it will have union protesters follow GOP presidential nominee-in-waiting John McCain around the country to demand explanations on his positions on economic and labor issues.
The AFL-CIO's leaders on Wednesday found a presidential candidate they can agree to focus on: Sen. John McCain.
This was supposed to be John Edwards' chance to shine, with 17,000 union members eager to be impressed, especially by a presidential candidate who has been actively courting labor support ever since his failed vice presidential run in 2004.
One Hollywood actor, Ronald Reagan, served as president for eight years. So why not an actor who plays a district attorney on TV? Fred Thompson, the character Arthur Branch on NBC's drama "Law & Order," is being urged to pursue the GOP nomination by several Tennessee Republicans who also have been trying to drum up support for a candidacy.
Mayor Tom Barrett's proposed 2010 budget calls for cutting ladder truck crews from five firefighters to four in the last eight ladder companies that still have five-member crews, and for closing one ladder company and one pumper engine company.
The citizens in an Arizona municipality are being protected by a for-profit company when it comes to fire and ems. Their own standards say that they are to respond with as few personal and apparatus as position in order to save the company money.
President Barack Obama's address to the AFL-CIO on Tuesday will shed light on a precarious friendship that will be tested in the near future.
In his fiery speech over Labor Day to the AFL-CIO, President Obama signaled that he intends to seize the offensive on health care this Wednesday night as he addresses a joint session of Congress.
Many Americans don't have much to celebrate this Labor Day as they find themselves unemployed.
No Economic Recovery in Sight: More Financial Chaos Ahead By Bob Chapman, The International Forecaster (reposted on DProgram.net)
"Puritanism," said H.L. Mencken, is "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." According to Thea Lee, policy director at the AFL-CIO,
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The man expected to become the AFL-CIO's next president said Monday that lawmakers would pay a political price if they abandon a government-run option in any health care overhaul.
The nation's largest labor union and some allied Democrats are pushing a new tax that would hit big investment firms such as Goldman Sachs reaping billions of dollars in profits while the rest of the economy sputters.
We have another pending bill that does what should have been done along time ago. Every Federal firefighter must have pay equity with every other Federal firefighter. What more need I say about this issue?
Top White House officials counseled Democratic senators Thursday on coping with disruptions at public events on health care this summer, officials said, and promised the party and allies would respond with twice the force if any individual lawmaker is criticized in television adv …
With Dem members of Congress being hung in effigy, told to commit suicide, receiving death threats, being physically assaulted, it's time for organized efforts by progressives too bring a little sanity to the process.
The Democrats reminds workers that they cannot be trusted to advance the rights of workers. The poor leadership of the Democrat party once again proves that it lacks the discipline of the GOP.
excerpt: ""–Arlen Specter has been a Republican officeholder for more than 40 years, but you hardly would have known it Saturday when he made his debut in front of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party.""
A definitive new look at the scope of employer anti-union campaigns by a noted Cornell University labor scholar finds that corporations have ramped up a wide-range of tactics designed to punish and intimidate workers for seeking to form a union.
Here's the latest example of how far corporations will go to stop real health care reform. Rick Scott, a multimillionaire, is putting $5 million of his own fortune into an ad campaign against President Obama's health care plan.
(CNN) – One of America's largest labor unions is teaming up with a prominent liberal interest group to target congressional Republicans' economic polices, calling the GOP the "party of no" in a new national ad buy coming only days before President Obama's first 100 days comes t …
After two weeks of wrangling over the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) during the congressional recess, both business and labor groups are claiming victory before the return of Congress this week.
The way Big Business leaders and GOP allies like Newt Gingrich tell it, the Employee Free Choice Act is an evil plot to destroy the economy and take away workers' rights to a secret ballot.
The biggest battle between corporate power and workers' rights in over 50 years starts today with the official introduction of the Employee Free Choice Act by leading Democrats in the House and Senate.
G-20: Improving on his previous statements, President Obama joined a global consensus against protectionism Wednesday in London. Sounds good, but it'll be meaningful only if he hits protectionists at home.
You would be hard-pressed to know that American workers suffered a cruel defeat last week when Pennsylvania Sen.
MIAMI BEACH — Union leaders cannot seem to get enough of Miami's luxury hotels.
The AFL-CIO Executive Council, at its annual winter meeting in Miami Beach, Florida, adopted a resolution Thursday urging the Obama administration to temporarily nationalize failing banks.