The White House said Friday it is working to ensure the 2010 census produces a better count of same-sex couples, this week's second policy announcement aimed at dampening rising anger in the gay community toward President Barack Obama.
More than 200 trade unionists worldwide were killed, assaulted or threatened in 2008 for trying to defend workers rights, an international trade union group said Wednesday.
Unions that represent mailers and printers at The Boston Globe have agreed to concessions they hope will keep the 137-year-old newspaper publishing.
Union leaders said Tuesday they have set aside differences to agree on a unified immigration overhaul plan they hope will win passage in Congress this year.
Union leaders say The New York Times Co. has told The Boston Globe's unions they must agree quickly to $20 million in concessions.
The Supreme Court has ruled for employers who want to force unionized workers to pursue their age discrimination claims through arbitration instead of a federal lawsuit.
The Hawaii Senate rejected an effort Wednesday to force a vote on same-sex civil unions, essentially killing the measure, even though a majority had indicated it supports the unions.
So far, so good, union leaders say in assessing President Barack Obama’s performance in his first two months in office.
Two powerful labor unions, ending months of bitter rivalry over organizing nurses, declared a truce on Thursday and pledged to work together on unionizing hospital workers and reforming the health care system.
Union leaders are talking about reuniting under a single, more powerful federation, nearly four years after a nasty breakup split organized labor.
A state Senate committee voted 3-3 early Wednesday on a bill that would allow same-sex civil unions, a split that normally would stall the legislation but in this case was not expected to prevent it from advancing.
Governors across the nation are seeking significant concessions from public employee unions in hopes of helping to balance their teetering budgets during the economic downturn.
A church group that owns beachfront property discriminated against a lesbian couple by not allowing them to rent the locale for their civil union ceremony, a New Jersey department ruled Monday in a case that has become a flash point in the nation's gay rights battle.
The Denver Newspaper Agency, which handles the business operations of The Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News, has asked six unions to accept $20 million in wage and benefit concessions by Jan. 16, the News reported Friday.
- Washington's presidential ping-pong game plays out every four or eight years as incoming presidents reverse the policies of their predecessors.
The verdict is still out on who exactly won the Boeing Machinists strike of 2008, but it has nonetheless given a shot in the arm to a weakening organized labor movement in America.
Brazil's president has come out in favor of same-sex unions.
As Barack Obama tries to convince blue-collar voters that he's one of them, union leaders acknowledge that some of their white constituents are still reluctant to support an African American for president.
The nation's largest labor organization mailed 600,000 fliers to swing union voters in four states Tuesday in an effort to help Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama correct some of the most persistent rumors about him.
The AFL-CIO endorsed Barack Obama for president Thursday, uniting the nation's 15 million union workers behind the Illinois senator and giving him full access to organized labor's massive bank accounts and political machinery.
The AFL-CIO is on the verge of endorsing Barack Obama for president.
The United Mine Workers of America endorsed Barack Obama for president Wednesday despite his recent defeats in primaries in coal-producing states where many of the union's members vote.
Canadian Auto Workers at General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC have ratified a new labor agreement, wrapping up this year's round of negotiations between the CAW and the major automakers.
Senate Democrats on Thursday dropped a bill allowing all police, firefighters and other first responders to unionize after Republicans complained they didn't get enough time to offer amendments.
The union tide is turning toward Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama, but cracks are showing inside the labor movement as its leaders grapple with internal and external strife as the nomination race drags on.
The AFL-CIO's incoming president, Richard Trumka, outlined "three absolute musts" in any overhaul package: a public option, an employer mandate and no tax on employer-provided health benefits.
"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,
Stating the obvious passes for folk wisdom in remote tribal areas such as the Southside of Chicago and since we now live in the Chicago-on- the-Potomac perhaps we should start to take some of this obvious wisdom into account.
It's too late, we've already given billions to the Unions. #2 Organized Crime Syndicate, IMHO, is Labor Unions. #1 is Congress.
I'd like to hear constructive comments on the "right to work" versus "unionism".
what passes for liberal thinking. Now the liberal brain does not gather in nor process information in a logical, factual, or reasonable manner.
Two unions have now joined in the growing chorus decrying Whole Foods' CEO John Mackey and suggesting a boycott of the store. Two weeks ago, Mackey penned a controversial op-ed in the Wall Street Journal offering the "Whole Foods alternative to ObamaCare."
If there's any question as to why union toughs turned up at recent health care town halls and got violent, consider what they were gooning for: a $10 billion bailout for their mismanaged pensions — at our expense.
Don't be fooled. The Progressives may backpedal. They may make noises about dropping the government option. They may call Obamacare insurance reform. They may talk about saving money and being more efficient.
The U.S.P.S. is in a fiscal crisis. The most often cited causes are real enough, decline of volume, the Internet, etc. but they are not the entire story, and the solutions proposed thus far will not address the unspoken issues the service faces. The U.S.P.S.
Today, it's my honor to turn this space to Sheet Metal Workers (SMWIA) General President Mike Sullivan, leader of one of the first unions to publicly state the union is pulling all support from the Blue Dogs because of their efforts to kill real health care reform.
"The court is considering whether to overturn its previous decisions that restrict unions and corporations from using their general treasuries to influence election campaigns."
Once an entitlement program is started it never stops. It never shrinks. It never stands still. It always grows. According to the Mainstream Media it's merely rightwing spin to say ObamaCare is meant to become a single-payer one-size fits all public option.
A wave of anger over a threatened San Francisco Bay Area BART transit strike, averted hours before a Monday walkout, carried a sobering message to employee unions and politicians: In hard economic times, voters in the liberal Bay Area can run out of patience over the demands of o …
Remember when dissent was considered to be the highest form of patriotism? That would have been during the era that began after George W. Bush's inauguration.
These people are now reaping the rewards of stupid policy! They should have hired Americans first! According to U.S. Department of Labor rules, an employee with the visa who is furloughed still must be paid by the employer, who can seek a waiver.
(08-13) 16:11 PDT Oakland -- BART workers will strike beginning at midnight Sunday, the union that represents train operators and station agents announced this afternoon.
""The survey, commissioned by the Canadian Health Coalition"" What is truly misleading is that the Canadian Health Coalition has nothing to do with health, medicine or patients. It is purely a lobbying arm of CUPE.
The Obama Administration's attempt to silence dissent is chilling. The San Francisco limousine-liberals led by the multi-millionaire Nancy Pelosi claim the protesters are carrying swastikas clearly trying to label them Nazis without being so crass as to use the word.
Kenneth Gladney, a black critic of Obama's health-care plan, was beaten, kicked, and called racist names by members of the SEIU, a corrupt and powerful left-wing union that backs Obama's plan, leaving him wheelchair-bound and too weak to speak.
Gotta love this "post-racial America": Democrat union heavies can beat up a black guy using racial epithets and leave him in a wheelchair unable to speak — and happily (unlike, say, a black professor being asked for picture ID) it's not "symbolic" of anything at all.
The Service Employers International Union has vowed to help stand up against the GOP backed Astrobirthers who are being sent in to disrupt the town hall meetings of Democratic members of Congress.
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.