(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Even as a House rollcall produced Party-line passage of the Republicans’ version of Jim Crow 3.0 - the Save Act 2.0 - Progressives, the National AFL-CIO, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the Congressional Black Caucus were moving to kill it and save voting rights for millions nationwide before the GOP can trash those more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – After 14 years as President and a lifetime of service to Working People and the Labor Movement, American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) President Lee Saunders has announced his decision to retire from his role as International President. Saunders, who has devoted his career to expanding the power more»

Mark Gruenberg at People’s World reports on a Save the Post rally held in Washington, D.C. that was much more than a protest against layoffs. Speakers and participants emphasized whether it involves the freedom of the press, saving Democracy or saving jobs, the Billionaire Class is working hard on the wrong side of history. “These layoffs are more»

Grant Schwab at The Detroit News reports The Ford Motor Company Employee who heckled President Donald Trump during a January visit to Ford’s Dearborn Truck Plant still has his job and "has no discipline on his record," a United Auto Workers (UAW) Official has confirmed. "TJ, we got your back," UAW Vice President Laura Dickerson said during a more»

Sarah Lazare at In These Times reports Federal Immigration Agents have abducted Eustaquio Orozco Verdusco, a Workers’ Rights Organizer well known in Minnesota for fighting wage theft and labor trafficking. He is currently held at the Cibola County Correctional Center in New Mexico, run by CoreCivic - one of the largest private prison companies in the more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The Trump Administration on Thursday (February 5th) finalized a rule that gives it the power to more easily fire an estimated 50,000 Federal Workers who focus on policy, striking many Civil Service safeguards while also gutting their whistleblower protections. The rule, dubbed Schedule Policy/Career, converts a wide swath of Federal more»

One hundred years ago this month, a Black Scholar and the son of former slaves set out to change the way we celebrate our shared history. Carter Woodson was tired of seeing the role of African Americans overlooked and underappreciated, and in 1926 he declared the very first “Negro History Week” - a predecessor to today’s Black History more»

Jessica James at Fox 5 News reports Kennedy Center Arts Workers United has responded to plans by President Trump to temporarily close the Preforming Arts Venue in Washington, D.C. Trump has announced the closure will start in July for renovations and last about two years. Kennedy Center Arts Workers United said it has not been given a "formal notice or more»

(SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA) – The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and a broad coalition of Labor Organizations, Non-Profit Groups and Local Governments have filed a supplemental complaint challenging the more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - There is an undeniable correlation between higher levels of Unionization and stronger economic, community and Democratic outcomes, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), as States with a larger share of Workers represented by a Union enjoy higher incomes, greater access to health insurance and fewer voting restrictions. When more»

C.J. Atkins at People’s World reports Union Leaders in Alberta and across Canada are sounding the alarm over what they see as an unprecedented foreign interference campaign: The Trump Administration’s covert collaboration with Alberta separatists. Washington is openly embracing a secession effort in the oil-rich Province that aims to fracture more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The murder in Minneapolis of Alex Pretti - a Veterans Administration (VA) Intensive Care Nurse and Union Member with the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), by Customs and Border Patrol Agents has prompted the Nation’s top Union for Registered Nurses (RNs) - National Nurses United (NNU), to demand abolition of the more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Dozens of Veterans of Steel from around the country stood with United Steelworkers (USW) Leaders and U.S. Representative Chris Deluzio earlier this month in Washington, D.C. as the former USW Organizer introduced a Bill that would help Veterans gain access to the benefits they earned through their service. “Anyone who ever more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - In what many are considering a big win for the Nation’s school kids, and for teachers’ freedom to teach honest history, the Republican Trump Administration’s Education Department has dropped its attempt to ban Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) teaching in U.S. Public Schools. Trump Education Secretary Linda more»

National Nurses United, the Nation’s largest Union of Registered Nurses (RNs), provided the following response to the House passage of H.R. 7148, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, and H.R. 7147, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026: After a year of constant, unchecked violence and militarization of our neighborhoods more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – The North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) is applauding recent Federal Court decisions that have restarted major U.S. Offshore Wind Projects, saying the rulings “mean our Members can get back to work and keep affordable, clean, reliable power moving to our communities.” NABTU President Sean McGarvey more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - During his first year in office of his second term, President Donald Trump and his allies have ruthlessly implemented the Project 2025 agenda that threatens Working People’s fundamental rights and freedoms, the National AFL-CIO says. The Administration committed the single biggest act of Union-Busting in history, launched a more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - There’s another big reason, left unmentioned until near the end of a mass rally of Unionists in Washington, D.C. last week to push Senators to undo Right-Wing GOP President Donald Trump’s wreckage of Union contracts covering 1.5 million Workers. What Trump did to them, especially to their Constitutional Rights to free more»

Day 1 of the National AFL-CIO’s 2026 AFL-CIO Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference in Baltimore started off strong with opening remarks from National AFL-CIO Civil, Human and Women's Rights Director Alex Rias, followed by a warm welcome from Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott. The afternoon wrapped up with an Evening with Labor Legends more»

David Lynch at The Washington Post reports introducing the highest U.S. tariffs since the Great Depression, President Donald Trump made a clear promise in the Spring: “Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country.” They haven’t. Manufacturing employment has declined every month since what Trump dubbed “Liberation more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - By a party-line 206-205 vote on a procedural move, the Republican-run U.S. House rejected Democratic attempts to open up debate and amendments to GOP Anti-Worker measures. The Democrats wanted to attach the Protect The Right To Organize (PRO) Act, Labor’s top legislation, to them. But then, in a complete and unexpected reversal more»

The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) has released a report detailing how the first year of the second Trump Administration has already made life less affordable for Working People. The EPI broke down these impacts into five categories: Eroding Workers’ wages and economic security; Undermining job creation; Weakening Workers’ Rights; Enabling more»

In his book - Who’s Got the Power?: The Resurgence of American Unions, Minnesota-based Labor Writer and Historian Dave Kamper unpacks the tumultuous wins and losses of the Labor Movement of the first half of the 2020 decade. Kamper analyzes the Labor fights that defined the 2020s - from the United Auto Workers Strike to the UPS Teamsters Strike to more»

National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler has issued the following statement: The Trump Administration’s reckless Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations are trampling on Working People’s fundamental rights and freedoms: To work with dignity and raise our families without the threat of violence from our government; and to safely return more»

National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued the following statement after the House of Representatives voted to pass a clean extension of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Premium Tax Subsidies: (The) vote to extend the ACA Tax Credits happened because Working People refused to accept another price hike engineered by President Trump and his Congressional more»

Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bernie Burnham made the following statement in response to the killing of an unarmed woman at the hands of an ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) Agent in Minneapolis: Minnesota’s Labor Movement is shocked, heartbroken and angry over the murder of an innocent observer by an ICE Agent in Minneapolis. The reckless more»

(AUSTIN, TEXAS) - Texas American Federation of Teachers (TAFT) President Zeph Capo and National American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten have announced the filing of a Federal lawsuit against the Texas Education Agency (TEA) and its Commissioner, Mike Morath. Texas AFT is challenging the TEA’s unlawful investigations into more»

Cameron Harrison at People’s World reports in a significant rebuke to the Trump White House, the House of Representatives passed the bipartisan Protecting America’s Workforce Act (H.R. 2550) before year’s end, voting to reverse the Trump Administration’s Executive Order that stripped Collective Bargaining Rights from more than a more»

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (TUCA) is expressing their absolute and unequivocal rejection of the military operation carried out by the U.S. Government on the territory of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. ITUC General Secretary Luc Triangle said “These acts in no way defend more»

Lynn Rhinehart at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) reports U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (Republican-Louisiana) recently unveiled a package of four bills that he described as advancing President Donald Trump’s purported Pro-Worker agenda. But there’s nothing in the legislation to address the problems Workers face when they try to organize Unions more»

National AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Fred Redmond recently penned a Labor Perspective that appeared in BlackPressUSA and reads, in part: In our workplaces, in our communities and in our Government, the right to vote is how Working People make our voices heard. The late Representative John Lewis (Georgia) proclaimed: “Your vote is precious, almost more»

Mark Gruenberg at People’s World reports the Senate’s approval of Crystal Carey as the new General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) makes a top Union-Buster the NLRB’s Chief Enforcement Officer and de facto Chief Of Staff. The same vote also filled two Board seats, assuring that for the first time in almost a year the more»

The Labor Movement has been tested like never before this year. Since Inauguration Day, the radical pages of Project 2025 and the fever dreams of America’s corporate billionaires have come to life with a relentless assault on Working People. With that said, the National AFL-CIO has released its year-end report, detailing how Organized Labor has more»

Parker Purifoy at Bloomberg Law reports The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will have its quorum restored after the U.S. Senate confirmed six new Members for crucial Labor positions in the Trump Administration. By a vote of 53-to-43, Senators approved a package of nominees - including James Murphy and Scott Mayer as NLRB Members and Crystal Carey as more»

Cameron Harrison at People’s World reports it’s no secret that irresponsible Rail Giants out for profits have visited injury and death on Workers and massive destruction to communities around the country. As such, Workers are warning that a new corporate monster railroads want to create via a merger would tear up critical health and safety more»

Jing Pan at Moneywise reports Ford CEO Jim Farley says there’s another side of the labor market that rarely makes the front page: High-paying jobs that are still out there - and going unfilled. “Those jobs are out there: Mechanics in a Ford dealership. As of this morning, we had (5,000) openings. A bay with a lift and tools and no one to work in more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), which represents 47,000 Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) at 400 airports across the country, has denounced U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem’s decision to terminate the Collective Bargaining Agreement between AFGE and the Transportation more»

Government Executive reports the House voted 231-to-195 late last week to pass legislation that would nullify President Trump’s efforts to strip more than one million Federal Workers of their Collective Bargaining Rights, sending the measure over to the Senate, where its prospects are less rosy. Twenty Republican Lawmakers broke ranks to support the more»

Elizabeth Elkind at Fox News reports 13 House Republicans joined Democrats in advancing a Bill to reverse President Donald Trump's Executive Order (EO) cracking down on Federal Worker Unions. The Bill was led by U.S. Representative Jared Golden (Democrat-Maine), who forced a vote on the measure via a mechanism called a discharge petition, which is designed more»

As the Trump Administration’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) looks to expand the dangerous, Anti-Worker One Touch, Make Ready (OTMR) policy, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) has filed comments with the agency, emphasizing how OTMR creates safety risks for both Workers and the public. CWA Members have repeatedly advocated against more»

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Monday (December 8th) in Trump v. Slaughter, a case that will determine the President's authority to remove heads of independent Federal Agencies - and could overturn a 90-year-old precedent that protects some officials from termination without cause. The case stems from President Donald Trump's attempt to fire Federal more»

David Bacon, a California Writer and Documentary Photographer, is a former Union Organizer who now documents Labor, the global economy, war and migration - and the struggle for Human Rights. He recently penned a Labor Op-Ed that was headlined: The Labor Movement Needs A Freedom Agenda, that was published in People’s World. It reads, in part: When more»

Eric Dirnback at Labor Notes reports every few years a book comes out that tries to explain what’s happening in the Labor Movement and maybe cheer us up from the bad news of Union decline. Dave Kamper’s new book - Who’s Got the Power: The Resurgence of American Unions, does the job. And it’s packed with insights about Unions and more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Unionized Journalists employed at POLITICO and E&E News (The PEN Guild) have secured a major victory in their arbitration case against POLITICO management over the company’s unilateral introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools that bypassed negotiated safeguards and undermined core journalistic standards. In a more»

Every day, roughly 10,000 Baby Boomers reach retirement age in America and many of them are skilled Tradespeople who’ve spent decades perfecting their crafts. Electricians who can troubleshoot complex industrial systems, Plumbers who understand aging infrastructure, Welders who work on critical infrastructure - they’re all walking out the door, more»

Steve Kennedy at Talking Points Memo reports that for nine decades, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has stood as the Federal Government’s primary guardian of Workers’ rights to organize and bargain collectively. Created in the depths of the Great Depression, the NLRB was designed to be a buffer between Workers and the concentrated more»

The Trump Administration will cut the pay of all Farmworkers by reducing the minimum wages paid to Workers filling seasonal agricultural jobs in the H-2A Visa Program. By lowering wage rates implemented by the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL), the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) estimates more than 350,000 H-2A Farmworkers could see their annual wages cut more»

Dom Shannon at People’s World reports the “right” to a Union is a hollow promise if the bosses can simply run out the clock. This is the lesson being taught to the 11,000 Unionized Starbucks Workers who, years after their historic votes to organize a Union, are still struggling for a first contract. This corporate stonewalling, led first more»

Mark Gruenberg at People’s World reports from Washington, D.C.: Catering to its corporate controllers and its own radical deregulatory zeal, the Donald Trump Regime has crafted plans to increase Workers’ - and their families’ - exposure to hazardous chemicals. The National AFL-CIO is urging Federal Lawmakers to stop that dangerous crusade. more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The National AFL-CIO has called on the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the independence of Federal Agencies and protect Workers’ ability to seek legal justice when their rights on the job are violated. Representing 64 Unions and 15 million Workers, the Nationwide Labor Federation filed an amicus Brief in Trump v. Slaughter, more»