Margie Mason at the Associated Press interviews Lisa Emery, a Respiratory Therapist who is deeply concerned about West Virginia Coal Miners suffering from Black Lung Disease. As Director of the New River Health Association Black Lung Clinic, Emery’s has seen Miners as young as 45 getting double lung transplants as disease rates soar among Miners more»

Mark Gruenberg at People’s World reports the Presidents of three of the Nation’s largest Unions - Becky Pringle of the National Education Association (NEA), Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and April Verrett of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) - all blasted the legislation that ended the longest more»

The International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers-Transportation Division (SMART-TD) has announced its Members have voted to approve a new contract agreement with railroads represented by the National Carriers Conference Committee. The deal covers Workers at BNSF Railway, Norfolk Southern, CN and multiple Class II and Class more»

Bloomberg Law Senior Reporter Ian Kullgren reports a sweeping slate of Bills released Monday (October 10th) by Republican U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana would fundamentally change the last eight decades of U.S. Labor Law. The bulk of the measures target the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Union Elections and decertifications, and Unfair Labor more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Union Leaders are cheering wins By Pro-Worker candidates and a Pro-Worker cause - California’s Prop 50 - in the November 4th Election. However, several are looking beyond that to next year’s campaign and balloting. All said the results repudiated Republican President Donald Trump and his extremist MAGA agenda and corporate more»

International Union of Painters & Allied Trades (IUPAT) General President Jimmy Williams, Jr. has penned a Labor Perspective that was recently published in Labor Notes and republished by a number of other on-line publications, including Jacobin. Williams, a fourth-generation Union Glazier, says many Members are “disconnected” from their more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued the following statement on the 2025 election results: Last night, voters across the country sent a clear message: When candidates stand with Workers, they win. For too long, politicians have chased billionaire donors instead of listening to the Workers who teach our children and care more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler has issued the following statement marking one month since the Federal Government’s funding expired and a shutdown began: “For one month, President Trump and his allies have shut down the government and forced more than two million Federal Workers and contractors to miss more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - As the Federal Government shutdown continues, nearly a quarter of the Federal Workforce is furloughed. That means more than 600,000 Workers are not performing important Federal service jobs - and are not receiving a paycheck. Still, while some Federal Agencies are working in limited capacity, many Worker Protection Agencies have ceased more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Nurses “speak truth to power” when hospitals put profits over patients, and Union contracts protect them when they do, says National Nurses United (NNU) President and Registered Nurse (RN) Mary Turner. And that’s why Unions and Workers’ Rights should be strengthened through passage of the Protect The Right To more»

Mark Gruenberg at People’s World reports a Federal Judge in San Francisco has halted President Donald Trump’s arbitrary firings - without pay - of 4,000 Federal Workers since the Trump-backed partial Federal Shutdown began on October 1st. But Judge Susan Illston couldn’t give them back pay, too. After a one-day hearing on a suit by the more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The Union representing the largest share of U.S. Government Workers is calling for Congress to pass a short-term funding bill to reopen the Federal Government as hundreds of thousands of Federal Employees are forced to stay home without pay due to the ongoing shutdown. American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) National more»

(ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI) — After nearly three months on Strike, more than 3,200 Members of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) District 837 have voted to reject Boeing’s latest contract offer, sending a clear message that the company has failed to address the core priorities of its skilled and dedicated workforce. more»

A.J. Schumann is a Writer from New Mexico and a former Henry A. Wallace Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. His Labor Perspective appeared recently in The St. Louis Labor Tribune. It reads, in part: In the absence of representation in formal political circles - and in the face of repression by those same circles - Workers turned to mass walkouts to more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The Staff of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has officially Unionized as CREW United, joining the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union – International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE) Local 70 (NPEU). CREW’s management voluntarily recognized the Union, which was more»

Suhauna Hussain at The Los Angeles Times reports the Union representing Starbucks Workers has filed a complaint with the International Olympic Committee, opposing the popular chain's role as the “official coffee partner” of the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. Starbucks Workers United contends in the complaint that Starbucks' treatment of U.S. more»

Eduardo Cuevas at USA TODAY reports the Nation’s largest infrastructure project has drawn President Donald Trump’s ire in his latest fight with Congressional Democrats. Trump has vowed to end the Gateway Tunnel Project meant to expand train service between New York and New Jersey along the Nation’s busiest rail corridor. The project - more»

Eric Boehm at Reason reports when U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (Republican-Missouri) recently clashed with a Boeing attorney at a committee hearing, he was clearly picking sides in an ongoing fight between the company and thousands of striking Workers at a Missouri Factory. But Hawley wasn't just borrowing the Labor Union's rhetoric as he criticized Boeing's more»

Andrea Hsu and Stephen Fowler at NPR (National Public Radio) report the Trump Administration has paused work on only a small share of the roughly 4,000 mass layoffs announced since October 1st in order to comply with a Federal Court order. That includes more than 400 Department of Housing and Urban Development Employees, 465 Education Department Staff and more»

Anna Del Savio at The Northwest Labor Press reports Starbucks fired three Portland-area Baristas last month. Their crime? Writing on the sidewalk outside their store. Aspen Maxwell and Hannah Zimmerman used chalk to draw “Workers Deserve A Fair Contract,” “Union Strong” and other slogans outside their Hillsboro Starbucks in more»

The National AFL-CIO has launched the Workers First Initiative on AI - the first comprehensive Labor Movement agenda establishing principles on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technology. The initiative provides a blueprint for how employers and Elected Officials should advance AI implementation in the workplace to the benefit of America’s Working People more»

Mark Gruenberg at People’s World reports the National Education Association (NEA), the Nation’s largest Union, is lobbying lawmakers against big looming cuts in Federal education aid - and a massive health insurance premium hike that would hit more than 21 million people directly, but many more who have any form of health insurance on January more»

United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain recently laid out four priorities he says should form the nucleus of a Workers’ Political Program - and he said that a broad Strike in May 2028 is one way to fight for those priorities. Fain spoke at the release of a new report by the Center for Working-Class Politics, Jacobin, and allied groups. The more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), whose Members are prime victims of President Donald Trump’s shutdown, furloughs and looming firings, are striking back: They’re asking Members and supporters to join the next round of No Kings Day protests, which are scheduled for Saturday (October 18th). Since AFGE more»

Colin Kalmbacher at Law & Crime reports the Union representing NASA Workers has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy in a Washington, D.C. Federal Court over an Executive Order stripping Collective Bargaining Rights from Federal Employees. On August 28th, Trump issued Executive Order 14343, entitled: more»

Josh Bivens at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) reports it is often under-recognized how much population aging is currently reducing the growth rate of the U.S. Labor Force - and will continue to pull it down in coming decades. The share of the population that is over the age of 65 (when Labor Force participation tends to take a steep fall on average) is more»

The Chicago News Guild-Communications Workers of America (TNG-CWA) Local 34017 and National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians (NABET-CWA) Local 41 have joined a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over excessive violence targeting reporters covering protests at an ICE more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – The largest Federal Worker Union in the Nation has sued the Trump-Vance Administration for forcing Civil Servants at the U.S. Department of Education to engage in partisan political rhetoric during the current Federal shutdown. The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) - the largest Federal Employee Union that more»

Federal Workers will start looking at their financial budgets as critical Employees like Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Agents continue to work for the public without pay. Joe Shuker - Vice President of America Federal Government Employees (AFGE) Council 100/TSA Region 7, talks to MSNBC’s Alex Witt to share his insight on the effects of more»

From the National AFL-CIO: Last week, we saw yet another disgusting example of how little the Trump Administration cares about Working People. The dedicated Americans who show up every day to keep our essential services running have been villainized over and over by corrupt billionaires since Inauguration Day. Union Members who help our seniors get their more»

Even as talks drag on between Anti-Union Starbucks management and Workers at 640 of its stores nationwide, the monster Coffee Chain can’t resist antagonizing its Workers and continuing to break Labor Law. And the saga of what happened more than three years ago at the Starbucks store in Sylmar, California not only illustrates the Coffee Giant’s more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued the following statement after the Federal Government’s funding expired and a shutdown began: The Federal Government is shutting down right now because President Trump and his Administration chose chaos and pain over responsible governing. Now, countless jobs, the essential Government more»

The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) have filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s threats of a mass firing of Federal Employees in the event of a government shutdown. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - For 151 organizations from coast to coast, including the Nation’s two largest Unions, the repression of Washington, D.C., by the Trump Regime is the proverbial “canary in the coal mine” for the fate of the rest of the country under Right-Wing hegemony. And they want Congressional Leaders to stop such a pending Trump more»

Cheryl Kelley is a former Senior Government Official with experience across five Cabinet Agencies, including serving as Director of Planning, Management and Budget. She is also an Adjunct Fellow at the Pell Center at Salve Regina University and the Author of An Informed Citizenry: How the Modern Federal Government Operates. WNYLaborToday.com recently met more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The American Federation of Government Employees Council of Prison Locals, representing more than 30,000 Federal Correctional Workers across the country, is strongly condemning the Trump Administration’s reckless move to strip away its legally negotiated Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) through the use of recent Executive more»

In response to reports that the Trump Administration’s Office of Management and Budget has told Government Agencies to prepare for permanent reductions in force if a Government shutdown occurs on October 1st, National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler released the following statement: America’s Federal Workers - the hard-working people across the more»

After two uncharacteristic years of decline in 2022 and 2023, the pay for Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of the 350 largest firms in the U.S. increased in 2024. As of the latest data available, realized compensation - which captures what CEOs took home in pay after any stock-based compensation was sold - averaged nearly $23 million in 2024 at the 350 more»

The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) reports that over the past three decades, stagnant weekly wages of Public School Teachers have fallen further and further behind those of college graduates who chose other careers, resulting in an ever-increasing Teacher pay gap that hit a record high in 2024. Key Findings: Over the last decade, inflation-adjusted weekly more»

Chloe Rogers at People’s World reports your retirement savings are supposed to be the safest money you’ll ever have - not a roll of the dice. The whole point of a 401k and other retirement plans is to let you gradually build wealth that brings economic security in your Golden Years - but private equity firms are itching to lure retirement savers more»

Union Press Associates reports two big Government Worker Unions - the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME), are cheering a Federal Judge’s ruling that Republican President Donald Trump and his Office of Personnel Management (OPM) illegally terminated 25,000 more»

National AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department (TTD) President Greg Regan and Secretary-Treasurer Shari Semelsberger issued the following statement to commemorate Rail Safety Week (which ran last week): “As America’s largest Transportation Labor Federation, representing the totality of Rail Labor and a voice for hundreds of thousands of more»

Jonathan Stempel at Reuters reports a group of 15 Democratic U.S. Senators are calling on Wells Fargo to end its alleged campaign against Employee Unions, saying a more constructive approach could address a toxic workplace culture and help the bank recover from scandals that prevented it from growing. In a letter to Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf, the more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The National AFL-CIO and affiliated Unions representing Federal Workers are applauding the introduction of the Protect America’s Workforce Act in the U.S. Senate - legislation that would reverse two Executive Orders issued by President Donald Trump and restore Collective Bargaining Rights to Federal Workers. Since Trump’s more»

Legal Director Scott Michelmanat the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) says the ACLU of Washington, D.C. has filed a class-action complaint against the Trump Administration for unlawfully targeting Federal Employees for their participation in diversity, equity and inclusion activities. The ACLU is asking the Merit System Protections Board, which exists more»

Boeing Workers at its St. Louis area Defense Factories will stay on Strike after Union Members voted Friday (September 12th) to reject a new contract offer from the U.S. Aviation Giant. The Strike began on August 4th, involving some 3,200 Workers in Missouri and Illinois represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) more»

Adam Dean at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) delves into a new EPI report that shows why President Donald Trump’s trade policy will not help U.S. Workers: Summary: Tariffs do not automatically raise wages or create good jobs. While strong tariff policies can help preserve jobs in industries facing unfair competition, strong Unions are a more»

The Trump Administration’s canceling of Collective Bargaining Rights for over 1.3 million Government Workers is the biggest act of Union-Busting in U.S. History. It’s a shot across the bow of the entire Labor Movement. In fact, it’s a declaration of open Class War on the entire Working Class. How else can the rounding up of Migrant more»

Fred Redmond, the highest-ranking African-American Labor Official in history, is the Secretary-Treasurer of the National AFL-CIO, the Nation’s largest Labor Federation representing 63 Unions and nearly 15 million Workers. He recently penned a Labor Perspective that was published on BlackPressUSA that read, in part: Throughout our history, the Labor more»

The National AFL-CIO released the following statement after the Trump Administration released the August Jobs Report: The Labor Movement has been warning that the Trump Administration’s policies are bad for Working Families and today’s jobs report shows those policies continue to weigh down the job market. Job creation has slowed, and there more»