Labor & Employment Law

Saints Players Try To Block Avondale Closure

Posted on September 09, 2010
    New Orleans Saints Player Rep Jon Stinchcomb sports a “Save Avondale Shipyard” tee shirt at the NFL Players Live! event.         On the football field they are the Super Bowl champions, but earlier this week, the New Orleans Saints showed they are workers? champions, too...

What?s the Word for Nov. 2? JOBS!

Posted on September 09, 2010
What are working families looking for in a candidate this fall? Let Machinists (IAM) President Tom Buffenbarger explain. Speaking to members of IAM, Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) and other Washington state unions at rally for Sen. Patty Murray in Seattle, he said: Our candidates are the type of candidates who bring the one word we want to hear to a campaign...

Explosion at Honeywell Nuclear Plant Staffed by Strike Breakers

Posted on September 09, 2010
    Some 3,000 union members from four states rallied last month in support of locked-out Honeywell workers.         This past weekend, just one day after the federal government allowed Honeywell to start up core production at its uranium enrichment facility in Metropolis, Ill...

68 Percent of Voters Frown on ?Phasing Out? Social Security

Posted on September 08, 2010
Attention Rand Paul in Kentucky, Joe Miller in Alaska, Sharron Angle in Nevada and all you other Republican congressional candidates flopping around on the far right banks of the mainstream!  Phasing out, privatizing or otherwise eliminating Social Security does not sit well with the vast majority of the voting public...

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Women Soccer Players Put One in the Net, Win Union Recognition

Posted on September 08, 2010
As world famous soccer announcer Andres Cantor would say  ?Goooooooal!? We just got word that the Women?s Professional Soccer Players Union (WPSPU) won recognition today through majority sign up certified by an arbitrator. The more than 150 players make up the seven teams in Women?s Professional Soccer  (WSP) that is now in its second season with teams in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Hayward in  Southern California, Philadelphia, Piscataway, N...

Workers, Bloggers Get Ready for World Day for Decent Work

Posted on September 08, 2010
      With just one month to go before the World Day for Decent Work, Oct. 7, trade unions across the world are stepping up pressure for decent jobs and social justice. And bloggers can play a big role in spreading the message.  Bloggers Unite has set up a special World Day for Decent Work site here and is asking bloggers to submit blogs on or before Oct...

Working America, Illinois AFL-CIO Connecting with Jobless Workers

Posted on September 08, 2010
      Illinois AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Tim Drea knows what it?s like to be unemployed?he?s experienced it himself, as a laid-off coal miner.  He knows, too, how important it is to keep jobless union members involved in the union movement and the fight for working family-friendly policies...

Hotel Workers? Faces Show Pride, Determination to Win Justice

Posted on September 08, 2010
      Photojournalist David Bacon has captured the pride and determination in the faces of hotel workers at the downtown Hilton in San Francisco who have spent the past few weeks in a dawn to dusk picket line. The workers, who chant to guests, “Don’t check in, check out!” are demanding that the hotel?s owners negotiate a new contract with their union, UNITEHERE! Local 2...

Jobs? Not Part of My Job Description, Says Angle

Posted on September 08, 2010
      Most of us, especially the jobless among us, agree with Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.), who yesterday said, ?Jobs is Job One for this Congress.? But then there?s Sharron Angle. The Tea Party/Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Nevada says that if she unseats Sen...

Painters Launch ?It?s About the Jobs? Bus Tour

Posted on September 08, 2010
       People who desperately want to go back to work don?t want to hear the same old rhetoric from politicians this year?they want candidates to put politics aside and tell us all what they are going to do to get America working again. Yesterday, the Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) launched a coast-to-coast ?It?s About The Jobs? bus tour to connect IUPAT members across the country with the candidates the union believes are the best hope to generate and bring back jobs...

Our Election Choice: Open Door to the Future or Slam It Shut

Posted on September 08, 2010
       Open the door to the future or slam it shut? That’s the choice in this fall’s elections as a new AFSCME ad makes clear. While Republicans in Congress blocked Democratic efforts to advance job-creating bills, they voted to lay off hundreds of thousands of Americans?while taking care of CEOs by closing tax loopholes...

Prayer and Public Employees

Posted on September 08, 2010
When AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker spoke Sunday at St. Margaret?s & San Francisco de Asis Episcopal Church in Miami Lakes, Fla., as part of Labor in the Pulpits, the service had just begun when a member of the choir slumped down in her chair and fell to the floor...

Union Leaders Discuss Workers? Issues in Media Around the Nation

Posted on September 07, 2010
Dozens of newspaper, radio,television and Internet media featured op-eds over Labor Day by union leaders on issues that workers care about–Social Security, jobs, young workers, immigration and job safety.  While most columns ran in local media, several received  national attention, inclduing a piece on Social Security on AOL and job creation in the National Journal...

Jobs: Job One for Congress

Posted on September 07, 2010
      Putting people to work making things in America will be Democrats’ top priority when Congress returns Sept. 15, two House leaders said today. During a telephone press conference, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said House Democrats will present a series of bill in this Congress and the next to help revive manufacturing and to implement President Obama?s infrastructure rebuilding plan...

Mott?s Corporate Greed: Rotten to the Core

Posted on September 07, 2010
      Dr Pepper Snapple Group CEO Larry Young pocketed $6.5 million last year. But he thinks his employees at Mott’s applesauce plant in Williamson, N.Y., should make $20,000 a year. So, the corporate conglomerate has been trying to cut $1...

Fox Spends Labor Day Attacking Working People

Posted on September 07, 2010
Most people celebrate working people on Labor Day. But not the extremists on Fox News. There, hate-mongering never takes a day off. Here are a few ugly examples of Fox from our friends at Media Matters for America: Tucker Carlson attacks autoworkers...

Labor Day Wrap: It?s Time for Jobs

Posted on September 07, 2010
While AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka was in Milwaukee Labor Day with President Obama and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler traveled throughout California, taking part in three Labor Day celebrations. In Los Angeles, she told an enthusiastic crowd at the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor ?s Labor Day breakfast: There’s nothing wrong with good jobs in America...

Labor Day: Recommit to Full Employment

Posted on September 06, 2010
      By the Rev. Jim Sessions The Rev. Jim Sessions is the president of the Working America Education Fund and is former director of the AFL-CIO Union Community Fund. He reminds us of the need for the union movement and religious communities to recommit to the joint fight for justice...

Obama Unveils Huge Infrastructure/Jobs Program at Milwaukee?s LaborFest

Posted on September 06, 2010
Karen Hickey, Wisconsin AFL-CIO political field communications assistant, contributed to this story. In a Labor Day address to more than 10,000 union members and their families in Milwaukee, President Obama announced a massive new job-creating road, rail, runway and air traffic control rebuilding project...

13.5 Percent Wage Cut Is ?Like Stealing??and More Bargaining News

Posted on September 06, 2010
A 13.5 percent wage cut is “like stealing,” says a California school employee?and more news from the “Bargaining Digest Weekly.” The AFL-CIO Collective Bargaining Department delivers daily, bargaining-related news and research resources to more than 1,300 subscribers...

Mother Jones Takes to the Stage

Posted on September 05, 2010
      ?Eighty years after her death, Mother Jones’ howl for safe mines and responsible corporations still echoes,? writes LA Weekly?s Amy Nicholson in a review of  the play, ?The Most Dangerous Woman in America: Machine Guns, Coal Dust, Mother Jones and the Making of the American Dream...

Labor Day 2010: America?s Workers Losing Ground

Posted on September 04, 2010
      The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) this week published three reports showing the extent to which America’s workers are losing ground this Labor Day: People are dropping out of the workforce because there are no jobs and those workers who have jobs are earning less...

Jobless Rate Worsens to 9.6% in August, Congress Needs to Act

Posted on September 03, 2010
      The U.S. jobless rate worsened to 9.6 percent in August from 9.5 percent in July, with 54,000 jobs lost, according to Bureau of Labor Dept. data out today. The private sector created only 67,000 jobs in August, far below the 150,000 jobs a month needed to keep up with the population and extremely far below the hundreds of thousands of new jobs needed each month to return to pre-recession employment levels...

Human Rights Report Highlights Discrimination, Inequality in U.S.

Posted on September 03, 2010
      The land of the free is not so free if you are poor, a person of color or an immigrant, says a new report. As a result, the U.S. government must aggressively work to eliminate discrimination and disparities throughout society and in the workplace and to ensure that international human rights standards are enforced inside its borders...

Wind, Web, Telecom and Sanitation Workers Join AFL-CIO Unions

Posted on September 03, 2010
    Workers at wind turbine maker Trinity Structural Towers voted to join IBEW.         Telecom workers, green industry wind power employees, sanitation workers?and, in a precedent setting win, website writers/producers?have recently joined AFL-CIO unions...

Sept. 15 Day of Action: We?re in a Jobs Emergency!

Posted on September 03, 2010
      With their six-figure salaries and government-paid health care, members of Congress may not feel the pinch of a 9.6 percent unemployment rate. But millions of Americans are in pain, and on Sept. 15, they will shout loud and clear that we are in an emergency and Congress must act immediately to create good jobs...

Wisconsin Union Members Already in Gear for Election Season

Posted on September 03, 2010
            Wisconsin working families aren?t waiting until Labor Day to mobilize for the fall elections.  They are already knocking on doors, leafleting worksites and more to get out the vote. Rep. Steve Kagen (D- Wis.) won?t know until the Sept...

USW: Hold Off Drilling in Gulf Until It?s Safe

Posted on September 02, 2010
The explosion and fire on an offshore petroleum platform in the Gulf of Mexico today shows ?we need to make sure all these rigs in the Gulf are safe to operate before we put personnel back to work on them,? United  Steelworkers (USW) Vice President Gary Beevers said...

Wanted: Economic Patriots to Save American Dream

Posted on September 02, 2010
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka yesterday described the upcoming elections this way: This election is about economic patriots, and it?s also about corporate traitors. Economic patriotism resonates among working people and the millions ofAmerica’s  jobless workers–and corporate traitors is an all-too apt description of many in Big Business, such as anti-patriotic corporations moving jobs out of this country...

Limbaugh?s Hometown Home to Active Union Movement

Posted on September 02, 2010
      Cathy Sherwin, AFL-CIO communications director for Missouri, describes why union members in a conservative county support Robin Carnahan for Senate. Cape Girardeau, Mo., probably isn’t the first place you’d think of as a union town...

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