(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - For more than a year, the Republican Trump Administration has been attempting to impose one-sided, Anti-Union contracts on different Federal Agencies including the Veterans Administration (VA) and the Department of Education. In July 2019, one of these contracts was imposed on the 7,500 American Federation Of Government Employees more»

The biggest lie ever told in American politics is the claim Donald Trump cares about Working People. He never has. He never will. As a bankruptcy-prone business mogul, Trump has always financed his lavish lifestyle at the expense of the Workers and contractors he screwed over. Now he is doing the same thing as President, having engineered a government more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) International President Lee Saunders - whose Union represents 1.4 million Public Employees across the U.S. that provide the vital services that make America happen - says it is “time to inject some disinfectant into the highest levels of more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) has filed a National Grievance, an unusual move, against Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who took over the agency, promptly fired more than two dozen top Staffers and imposed shutdown actions and an overtime ban that slows the mail down. The Union’s grievance, which also more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Several National Labor leaders came together late last week to call on the Senate to pass the HEROES (Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions) Act, a House-approved Bill that includes nearly $1 trillion in Federal aid to states, cities and towns - which is essential in helping communities across the country more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Government Watchdogs, Democratic Lawmakers and Pro-Democracy Advocates declared it a "Friday Night Massacre" for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) after news broke in a classic end-of-the-week dump that Louis DeJoy - a major GOP donor to Republican President Donald Trump and the recently-appointed Postmaster General - had issued a more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Next week, on August 13th and the 14th, thousands of Delegates will participate in virtual proceedings during the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees’ (AFSCME) 44th International Convention. During the convention, AFSCME Delegates will conduct the business of the Union, including elections for the more»

While today's wave of protests focuses on the role of police in our society, we cannot ignore another big looming crisis for Black lives: The destruction of the Public Sector. With the GDP shrinking by a whopping 32.9% in the second quarter, the economic crisis induced by the pandemic is leading to massive austerity across the country. Without Federal more»

(PORTLAND, MAINE) - Letter Carriers in Portland, Maine have filed a formal complaint against their Postmaster James Thornton, to the Post Office Inspector General, accusing him of delaying First Class Mail in order to, fast track Amazon packages. A Journalist said of the situation: “We’re watching the deliberate destruction of the Post Office more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Fed up with Trump Regime inaction to protect Front Line Transportation Workers, their Unions have formally petitioned U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Secretary Elaine Chao to order the Nation’s airlines and subway, bus and commuter rail companies to force passengers to wear Anti-Coronavirus Protective Masks all the more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Organized Labor is pleased with the House of Representatives passing a massive $1.5 trillion Infrastructure Bill that includes Davis-Bacon Prevailing Wage Requirements and the use of Project Labor Agreements (PLAs), which Anti-Union Forces had fought against. If you missed it, the House passed H.R. 2, the Moving Forward Act, on a more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is considering closing Post Offices across the country, sparking concerns ahead of an anticipated surge of mail-in ballots in the 2020 Elections, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin and the President of the American Postal Workers (APWU) say. Manchin said he has received numerous reports from post offices and more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The extra $600 a week in Unemployment Insurance Benefits that has helped support more than 30 million people who lost work in the COVID-19 Pandemic expires today (July 31st) - without being extended by Congress. The House passed a Relief Bill in May, the $3 trillion HEROES (Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions) Act more»

A typical poultry, pork or beef plant employs hundreds of people - by and large Immigrants, Refugees and People of Color - toiling shoulder to shoulder to dismember and break down carcasses moving down the kill line at rates as high as 390 cattle, 1,295 pigs or 10,500 birds per hour. Meatpacking Workers have always faced hazardous conditions and high more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The National AFL-CIO and its Affiliate Labor Unions are condemning Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Republican-Kentucky) for his body’s failure to pass the HEROES (Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions) Act, which is deepening economic hardship for millions, especially those who will lose the additional more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on CBS News' "Face the Nation" that Democrats will not support liability protections for employers of "Essential Workers" in the next Coronavirus Relief Bill. Why it matters: Senate Republicans' stimulus proposal is expected to include widespread liability insurance for schools, businesses, hospitals and more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) has released a new report that provides an inside account of how employers routinely threaten, intimidate, and harass Workers to stop them from exercising their right to Collective Bargaining. Specifically, the authors take a deep dive into Unionization Drives at Kumho Tire in Georgia and DISH TV more»

Foo Fighters Frontman and former Nirvana Drummer Dave Grohl - whose mother was a Public School Teacher, is defending Teachers in the Age of Trump and the Coronavirus Pandemic, and trashing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for being “incompetent” in a new essay for The Atlantic. At one point in the essay Grohl questions the competency of DeVos, more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - While most non-essential services are shut down, Union Elections are suspended, and most of America is working from home - worrying about a global pandemic, Trump’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) passed a rule to make it harder to win a Union Election. The proposed rule was actually published back on April 1st and contains more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has taken a deregulatory approach to Labor Unions and Workplace Law under the Trump Administration, and the agency has largely stayed on that management-side course during the Coronavirus Pandemic. The outbreak has presented novel legal issues under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) President Lee Saunders released the following statement on the death of Congressman John Lewis: “We have lost one of the greatest Americans of our time. Congressman John Lewis was willing to lay down his life to make his country better and fairer. His more»

As American families fret over a patchwork set of standards for reopening schools that vary widely by city and state, Teachers’ Unions across the country are denouncing the Trump Administration’s approach to the issue as ill-advised, life-threatening and unjust. And - they’re vowing to do something about it. Republican President Donald more»

(DUNMORE, PENNSYLVANIA) - Democrat Joe Biden turned his campaign against Republican President Donald Trump toward the economy, introducing a New Deal-like Economic Agenda - while drawing a sharp contrast with a billionaire incumbent that the former Vice President says has abandoned Working Class Americans amid cascading crises. Biden presented details of a more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - As the recession delivers severe budget cuts to education, many Teachers are worried they won’t be able to re-open schools safely, which has left some considering the possibility of a Strike. Given the physical distance needed, Teachers are considering the “hybrid basis,” of teaching as the best model for re-opening, more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - With at least one out of every nine American Workers still jobless, the extra $600 a week in Unemployment Benefits enacted in March is scheduled to expire before the end of the month. As such, Labor Unions are mounting a campaign to overcome Senate Republicans’ resistance to extending them. The House passed a Bill in mid-May, more»

(BANGOR, MAINE) - The International President of the Machinists Union is calling on Congress to pressure Navy Shipbuilder Bath Iron Works to return to the bargaining table and negotiate a fair agreement with Striking Workers. “The Machinists Union is ready and willing to work with all partners in our effort to save these vitally important jobs and more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - As it struggles to stay afloat during the Coronavirus Pandemic, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has implemented "difficult" cost-cutting measures that may slow mail delivery, The Washington Post first reported. The changes, established by the USPS's new Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, were disseminated this week in memos that were more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The entity tasked with overseeing labor-management relations in the Federal Government has issued final regulations making it easier for Workers to cancel their Union Dues, despite opposition from Labor Groups and accusations of shifting rationale from one of its own members. Last February, the Federal Labor Relations Authority more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – National AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has announced the creation of the National AFL-CIO Task Force on Racial Justice, charged with implementing a series of recommendations adopted by the National AFL-CIO General Board that focuses on taking concrete action to address America’s long history of racism and police violence more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Joe Biden said last week that if he defeats Republican President Donald Trump in the November Election that Labor Unions can count on him to champion their causes and rest assured they will have a seat at the table in the White House. Speaking to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), Biden, the presumptive more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has given employers a sweeping ability to increase surveillance on their Employees, overturning years of Labor Law that protected the privacy of Workers. In late June, the NLRB issued a ruling that expanded an employer’s right to surveil their workforce. In the decision, the NLRB said more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Republican President Donald Trump’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is considering killing a legal precedent that has protected Unions since before he was born, according to a recent filing by the Board. One Professor of Labor Law said he was “stunned” when Trump’s NLRB announced that it would review more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - With millions of Workers returning to their jobs amid a still-raging Coronavirus Pandemic, the top Republican priority for the next big Coronavirus Bill is preventing them from suing their employers if they get sick. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Republican-Kentucky) says his “number one” policy for a Bill more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Chief Counsel Peter Robb has announced some new rules to further constrain investigators at the NLRB. Robb, who has a long history of fighting against Union-represented Workers, has sent a memo to Regional Directors across the country that outlines the changes. The new guidelines will prohibit more»

Once again, the Trump Administration is showing Workers in the U.S. the back of its hand. As if going AWOL on Workplace Safety in the face of the Coronavirus Pandemic wasn’t enough, now the Trump Administration's Labor Department has decided to tell employers not to worry too much about paying their employees properly. It telegraphed that message more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The generous expansion to Unemployment Insurance that Congress passed to keep Americans afloat during the COVID-19 crisis is due to run out at the end of the month, potentially leaving millions of people struggling. Unemployment remained at 11.1% in June, worse than it was at the height of the Great Recession in 2009, but Congress is more»

Compared to Non-Union Workers, Union Members have higher wages and smaller gender and racial wage disparities. Now, a new research paper finds that stronger Labor Unions have an Anti-Racist side effect - White Union Members feel less racial resentment against Blacks than their Non-Union counterparts. The paper published in the American Journal of more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - It’s an economic lifeline that Congress extended to millions of Americans who lost their jobs due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, but Congress - specifically the Senate - is getting ready to yank it away prematurely, though the economy continues to buckle and Workers continue to lose jobs through no fault of their own. We’re more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Congress needs to enact “at least $1 trillion” in Federal Aid for state and local governments in order to prevent public services from collapsing, American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) President Lee Saunders says. Speaking on a telephone press conference organized by the Union, he said more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The Trump administration is working behind the scenes to move forward with its plan to merge the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) with the General Services Administration (GSA) and transfer key policy setting functions to the White House, a move that would politicize the Federal Workforce and reintroduce the spoils system in which more»

Amazon is piloting a system that sends real-time warnings to Workers if they’re standing too close to each other and some major companies are testing technology to identify Workers who have been in close contact with a Co-Worker who tests positive for the Coronavirus. Employers are rushing to use Digital Tracking Technology to reduce virus more»

(TULSA, OKLAHOMA) – Earlier this month, Republican President Donald Trump held a sparsely attended rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma to relaunch his campaign after months of falling poll numbers. While the campaign expected hundreds of thousands of people, just over 6,000 MAGA fans showed up to listen to Trump ramble on and prove that he could drink a glass more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) -The U.S. Supreme Court won’t decide whether to take the case dubbed “Janus II” until at least this Fall. Mark Janus, plaintiff in the Court’s 2018 Janus v. AFSCME Council 31 decision that ruled Public Sector Workers could not be required to pay “Fair Share Fees” to the Union representing them, filed a more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Reversing a four-year-old decision on the standard for Employee Discipline in advance of a first contract that many employers found onerous, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has overruled Total Security Management Illinois 1, LLC, 364 NLRB No. 106 (2016). 800 River Road Operating Company, LLC d/b/a Care One at New Milford, 369 more»

During the Coronavirus Pandemic, employers have opposed Unionization Elections even as Workers’ activism over safety protections, job security and wages has increased in the face of an economic shutdown and health fears. But the pandemic has created difficult conditions for Workers to organize elections, something many employers appear to have taken more»

As states and municipalities relax shelter-in-place orders, the Nation seems to be racing to get the economy back to something resembling the pre-pandemic era. Restaurants, malls, cinemas, day care centers and retail stores are reopening sooner than most medical professionals think is wise. The risk is obvious to many businesses that stayed open as the more»

(BROOKLYN, NEW YORK) - The enormous white stone arch in Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza is a memorial to the Union’s victory in the Civil War. While Confederate monuments are toppling across the country, but the arch is only getting more popular. At 11:30 on a hot Juneteenth morning, Kyle Bragg stands in its shade, wearing a red T-shirt, a New more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Under the leadership of Trump appointees, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is suing to overturn an Oregon Law that gives Workers the right to skip Anti-Union Captive Audience Meetings. In a lawsuit filed in U.S District Court against the State of Oregon, the NLRB argues the Oregon Law is preempted by the National Labor more»

(SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA) - Facebook has apparently backed down from guidance to firms using its Office Management App, Facebook Workplace, that they could ban the word “Unionize.” The ban was used as an example in an internal company memo telling customers such as Walmart - which is notorious for its hatred of Unions and Workers’ Rights - more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - With the American public's attention consumed by the COVID-19 Pandemic and mass protests against police brutality, the U.S. Labor Department earlier this month quietly gave corporate sponsors of retirement plans something they've been agitating over for years: a government green light to invest Workers' savings into funds managed by more»