Labor & Employment Law

Join a Labor Day Tweet-a-Thon

Posted on September 02, 2010
      We?ve got a long Labor Day weekend in front of us and that means plenty of time to join American Rights at Work?s first-ever Labor Day Tweet-a-Thon along with celebrity union members?including actors, recording artists, Broadway performers, baseball players and broadcasters...

Boehner and Republicans: ?Stop Picking on BP?

Posted on September 02, 2010
      It?s no secret that House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and his colleagues are tight with their corporate chums. They even defend poor little old BP from the meanies working to hold the petroleum giant accountable for the Gulf oil spill...

Labor Day 2010: Workers? Rights Here and Around the Globe

Posted on September 02, 2010
      Corporations that lead the way in creating fair working environments prosper?but too many employers and governments around the world are abusing workers’ rights, according to the findings of several reports released in time for Labor Day...

?Too Much at Stake in This Election to Stay Home?

Posted on September 02, 2010
              Trent McNutt and Laura Jackson are hitting the streets and going door to door to make sure that candidates who will create real jobs are elected this fall?and they say every worker should join them because there’s too much at stake to stay home...

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Oklahoma Laborfest Conquers All

Posted on September 02, 2010
    The performers and musicians of “Oklahoma Speaks.”         Stuart Elliott from the Wichita/Hutchinson Labor Federation of Central Kansas reports on the Oklahoma Laborfest, Aug. 26-28 in Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City rocked for three days with the sounds of a celebration of working people...

Sportsman Channel Salutes Union Workers

Posted on September 02, 2010
   Check out the Sportsman Channel this weekend, where the Union Sportsmen’s Alliance (USA) is dedicating Labor Day Weekend as a tribute to America?s working men and women with a continual run of public service announcements (PSAs) featuring AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka who also serves as USA chairman...

?Apathy is Our Biggest Adversary in this Election?

Posted on September 01, 2010
      Kathy Cummings, communications director for the Washington State Labor Council (WSLC) sends us this video of House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) rallying union activists yesterday to ramp up their election action enthusiasm...

Unions Say No to Tea Time in Alaska Senate Race

Posted on September 01, 2010
      Alaskan voters couldn?t be facing two more different candidates for the U.S. Senate?Scott McAdams, endorsed by 49th state?s working family unions and Joe Miller backed by the Tea Party and endorsed by Sarah Palin. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says McAdams is a union person...

Trumka: Labor Day a Defining Time for Working People

Posted on September 01, 2010
The elections this year come down to a choice between leaders who will stand with working people or those whose right-wing agenda will choke off economic recovery and put corporations back in the driver's seat. With that said, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka outlined plans for an aggressive and massive mobilization of working people this Labor Day weekend and for the fall election...

Solis Labor Day Message Focuses on Jobs

Posted on September 01, 2010
In a Labor Day video message (also available in Spanish here) for America?s workers, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis says that in her travels around the country, ?Many of you have told me you want an America that ?produces things again.? But more than anything else, no matter where I go and who I talk to, you?ve told me: ?We need jobs...

Ohio?s Kasich has Long Record as Job Killer

Posted on September 01, 2010
It shouldn?t come as any surprise that Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich wants to outsource and privatize state government jobs (click here for more from Labor 2010 in Ohio). While he was in Congress, Kasich voted to send tens of thousands American jobs overseas...

California Latino Voters Say Fiorina ?No Es Mi Amiga?

Posted on August 31, 2010
      Carly Fiorina, California Republican U.S. Senate candidate, shares a wide range of skewed views straight out of the Sarah Palin manifesto. But there is one key Palinesque policy she embraces that she?d just a soon the state?s Latino voters didn?t dwell on...

Help The Victims of Pakistan?s Floods

Posted on August 31, 2010
      When tragedy strikes American workers are always in the forefront of those offering help. This time, it?s the massive flooding caused by weeks of torrential rain in Pakistan. In a letter to Khurshid Ahmed, general secretary of the Pakistan Workers’ Federation (PWF), AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka expressed  solidarity with the Pakistani workers and offered condolences to the victims of the flooding...

Commerce Flubs Currency Decision, Now It?s Up to Congress

Posted on August 31, 2010
The AFL-CIO is disappointed the U.S. Department of Commerce today rejected arguments that China’s undervalued currency acts as an export subsidy.  We agree with Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) Executive Director Scott Paul, who said in a statement: It’s now up to Congress to pass legislation to strengthen and modernize our trade laws so that the devastating impact of currency manipulation can be factored into penalties for subsidies and dumping...

Workers Say Obama/Trumka Labor Day Visit Will Energize Voters

Posted on August 31, 2010
Milwaukee AFT Local 2169 member Ashleigh Lund says she hopes that President Obama?s Labor Day appearance with AFL-CIO President AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka at the annual Laborfest can spur people to get to the voting booths in support of worker friendly candidates this November?I am excited because this shows me that the rights of workers are still important to Obama...

Rep. Gwen Moore Energizes Milwaukee Labor Volunteers

Posted on August 31, 2010
      Karen Hickey, Wisconsin AFL-CIO political field communications assistant, sends us this report. Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) joined more than 150 union members at a recent labor walk in Milwaukee to thank volunteers for their hard work this election...

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders Meets with Kentucky Union Leaders

Posted on August 31, 2010
Nate Byer, AFL-CIO communications director in Kentucky, sends us this report. As part of his congressional August recess, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was in Kentucky yesterday to witness firsthand how residents of the Bluegrass State have risen to the challenging economic realities that face the region...

Alliance Renews Call for Simpson?s Ouster

Posted on August 31, 2010
If Social Security was on trial, says Edward F. Coyle, executive director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, ?There is not a judge in this country that would allow Alan Simpson to serve on the jury.? Simpson, who has called Social Security recipients ?greedy geezers,? co-chairs the federal budget deficit commission–even though he is a long-time advocate of making cuts to Social Security, such as raising the Social Security retirement age...

Delta Flight Attendants: We?ve Lost that Family Feeling

Posted on August 31, 2010
       At the Delta Airlines website, CEO Richard Anderson boasts that the company is “firmly committed to our environment, safety and social responsibility.” But some long-time Delta employees say the carrier has forgotten its repsonibilities to its workers...

Indiana Unions Provide Food Aid for Jobless Workers

Posted on August 31, 2010
      Jade Mendoza, Indiana AFL-CIO Field Communications director, sends us this report. Garland Stovall has been helping laid-off and unemployed union members get food on their table for more than five years. Starting with United Way, Garland ran food pantries for the Sheet Metal Workers (SMWIA) and the United Steelworkers (USW) unions before heading up the food pantry at the Indiana AFL-CIO office for the Carpenters Local 60, Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 481, and USW Local 1999 today...

Domestic Workers Finally Get Their Rights

Posted on August 31, 2010
      Caregivers, nannies and housekeepers are celebrating across New York State today. This morning, New York Gov. David Paterson (D) signed into law the first-ever  law in the nation that upholds domestic workers’ rights.  Domestic Workers United (DWU) estimates there are 200,000 domestic workers in New York City alone...

Workers Rally for Justice at Anchorage Sheraton

Posted on August 31, 2010
Some 200 Alaskan union members rallied recently in support of workers at the Anchorage Sheraton hotel where UNITE-HERE Local 878 members are fighting for a fair contract and against a fierce union-busting campaign. The rally is part of the nationwide fight UNITE-HERE  is waging against hotels that abuse workers and fight their  freedom to form unions...

Simpson Still Needs to be Sacked from Commission

Posted on August 30, 2010
   Alan Simpson, who last week compared Social Security to a mutant bovine (thanks to TPM?s Brian Beutler for the turn of phrase) has ?tried time and again over the years to raise the retirement age and cut Social Security benefits,? says Rep...

Target Wall Street Greed, Not Public Employees

Posted on August 30, 2010
      Too often when economic times get tough, scapegoats are found in the wrong places. Wall Street greed and double-dealing sparked much of the nation’s recent near-financial collapse, yet many in the chattering classes instead are attacking public employees for this rolling recession...

American Rights at Work Honors Partnerships That Work

Posted on August 30, 2010
      An Oregon streetcar maker, a Wisconsin paper mill and a Tennessee solar products manufacturer are three of the eight companies that made this year?s “Labor Day List: Partnerships that Work.” This year?s annual report by American Rights at Work highlights positive labor-management relationships working in the clean energy economy...

N.Y. Congress Members Urge CEO to Bargain with Mott?s Workers?and More Bargaining News

Posted on August 30, 2010
New York members of Congress urge CEO of Dr. Pepper Snapple Group to bargain with Mott’s workers, 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...

Five Years After Katrina: Frustration and Determination

Posted on August 29, 2010
    This trumpet player is painted on a house still unrepaired five years after Hurricane Katrina.         Unemployment in New Orleans is below the national average, but the poverty level is twice the national rate. The reasons behind that stark contrast tell the real story of what is going on five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Crescent City...

Workers Who Win South Can Change The Nation

Posted on August 28, 2010
    MaryBe McMillan         As we approach the massive One Nation Working Together march on Oct. 2, MaryBe McMillan, secretary-treasurer of the North Carolina State AFL-CIO, says the road to an economy that works for all must first come through the South...

Trumka: Wins in November?Path to Jobs in Future

Posted on August 27, 2010
Oregon gubernatorial candidate John Kitzhaber and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka at Oregon “Jobs” town hall meeting. Elana Guiney, Communications and Research director for the Oregon AFL-CIO, sends this report on the start of the Labor 2010 campaign season in Oregon...

Public Backs Ending Tax Cuts for Rich, and More

Posted on August 27, 2010
      Note to lawmakers: It’s the economy, stupid. Most Americans support ending Bush tax cuts for the wealthy.  A new CBS News poll finds that a majority of Americans, 56 percent, say the tax cuts for the wealthy should expire for households earning more than $250,000 per year, as Democrats have proposed...

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