(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) new Election Rule, which was set to take effect on Monday, June 1st, was struck down by a Federal Judge after a challenge to the rule by the National AFL-CIO. Back in December, the NLRB issued the rule without first releasing a proposed rule for public comment. The new rule was welcome more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – The National AFL-CIO’s Headquarters in Washington, D.C. was vandalized and torched during protests that have been occurring in cities across the United States since the death of George Floyd by the hands of the Minneapolis police, but Labor Federation President Richard Trumka said: “We will clean up the glass, sweep more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – National AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka delivered the following remarks at a Town Hall on Civil Rights and COVID-19 on Friday (May 28th): This is an important conversation. Quite frankly, it’s a long overdue one. We often hear people say the Coronavirus doesn’t discriminate. We know that’s far from the more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – More than 60 Labor leaders have sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, copying both the Postal Board of Governors and the Postmaster General, urging them support the United States Postal Service. The letter states: As representatives of our 17 million Members and all American more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - When Republican President Donald Trump took office in 2017, his team stopped work on new Federal Regulations that would have forced the Health Care Industry to prepare for an airborne infectious disease pandemic such as COVID-19. That decision is documented in Federal Records reviewed by National Public Radio (NPR). "If that rule more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Since he took office, Vice President Mike Pence has been working with high-level backers of Republican President Trump to develop a comprehensive strategy to weaken Labor Unions. It revolves around so-called Right-To-Work (for less) Laws that have already been rammed through numerous state legislative bodies. Among the GOP bright more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The Union that represents Employees at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Department is seeking an injunction to prevent the Trump-appointed Federal Service Impasses Panel from unilaterally imposing a contract onto the Workers at the VA. The lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of the panel’s makeup - saying that the positions on the more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Top Union Leaders, marshaled by National AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, are backing the $3.6 billion in the House Democrats’ Stimulus Bill to pay states to establish Vote-By-Mail Systems - and the measure’s mandate requiring states to do so. But whether the Unionists’ statements, plus wide public support for the more»

Randy Narvaez had worked for a Denver-area King Sooper Store for over 30 years by the time he died from the Coronavirus. In a press release, his Union - the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW), said there are a dozen cases among his Co-Workers. Even if they all survive, they’ll see their pay reduced by the time they recover. King more»

A win at United Airlines has Labor Unions seeking similar gains at Delta and JetBlue. Earlier this month and just hours after the International Association of Machinists (IAM) filed a lawsuit, United withdrew a plan that would have moved several thousand Fleet Service Workers and Passenger Service Agents from full-time to part-time and reduced weekly hours more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The National AFL-CIO has filed a petition for a Writ of Mandamus in the U.S. Court of Appeals to compel the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to issue an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) protecting U.S. Workers against the Coronavirus. The petition demonstrates that thousands of Workers have been infected on the more»

“My Co-Workers are getting sick and ‘we know this disease can be fatal,’ says Sofia, a pseudonym for a Worker at an undisclosed Case Farms Poultry Plant on the East Coast. “We ‘want to do our jobs and help feed people during this crisis, but we need to know our employer is listening to us and doing everything possible to make more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The House voted last week on another Coronavirus Relief Stimulus Package that includes $200 billion in Hazard Pay for Essential Workers. Now, the question now is will this money get to the Essential Workers who actually work on the frontlines or will they be overlooked? Before now, neither political party had put forward a stimulus more»

Since the Coronavirus Pandemic was declared, Caterpillar has suspended operations at two plants and a foundry, Levi Strauss has closed stores, and Toolmaker Stanley Black & Decker has been planning layoffs and furloughs. Steelcase, an Office Furniture Manufacturer, and the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) have also shed Employees. And as thousands more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - A new Coronavirus Aid Package released by House Democrats includes $25 billion for the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service (USPS), which is expected to run out of money by the end of September without additional support from Congress because it’s losing so much revenue during the pandemic. The Bill released earlier this week also more»

Business Insider Editor’s Note: The authors of this Labor Perspective are: Rachel Korberg is a Program Officer with the Ford Foundation's Future of Work initiative; and Sarita Gupta is Director of the Ford Foundation's Future of Work Program. Kim Brown used to love her job at a Publix Grocery Store in Georgia. She enjoyed meeting new people and more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – National AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is warning Workers will be placed at risk of getting sick with Coronavirus if restrictions on businesses are lifted without robust safety protocols in place. “Don’t ‘talk about tough restrictions and guidelines.’ ‘Talk about Worker safety,’” more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – The National Action Network, Civil Rights and Faith Leaders - representing a combined 30,000 congregations of more than 25 million people - have sent a joint letter to Congress calling for swift passage of state and local aid in the next Stimulus Bill. As COVID-19 disproportionately ravages African-American Communities, those more»

Most companies are Anti-Union for bad reasons. They argue Unions are actually anti-Worker, corrupt and put unnecessary barriers between Workers and management. The argument you have likely heard the most if you’ve ever worked in an Anti-Union company (like Amazon or Walmart) is that Unions actually hurt productivity and wages. But that’s more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The U.S. Postal Service's Board of Governors has announced Louis DeJoy, a North Carolina businessman who has given millions of dollars to the Republican Party - including the Trump campaign, has been named the Nation's new Postmaster General. “The APWU ‘is deeply concerned’ with the appointment process to make Mr. more»

When is it safe for people to go back to work? That's the question both employers and Workers are asking, as businesses around the country start to open doors shuttered by the Coronavirus. Workers want assurances they aren't putting themselves at risk. And employers want to know they won't be sued if Workers get sick. Senate Majority Leader Mitch more»

Common Wealth Magazine Editor’s Note: Mark Erlich is the Wertheim Fellow at the Harvard University Labor and Worklife Program. He is the retired Executive Secretary-Treasurer with the New England Regional Council of Carpenters and a Member of the Board of MassINC, which is the corporate parent of CommonWealth. If crises expose the underlying more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) has launched two ads urging Congress and Republican President Donald Trump to approve desperately needed state and local aid to keep Front Line Public Service Workers on the job to fight the Coronavirus Pandemic and reopen the economy. The ads are part of the 1.4 more»

Let’s just say upfront that the selection of Sara Nelson to be the Democratic nominee for Vice President is a long shot. At the same time, Nelson is not a good person to underestimate. Since 2014, she has been the President of a relatively small Labor Union - the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA), which has just 50,000 Members, but has punched more»

(THE STATE OF WISCONSIN) - In late March, Workers at multiple call centers in Wisconsin had had enough. The company they worked for, CapTel, provides text captions for hearing impaired people during phone calls, and amid the Coronavirus Pandemic there was more work than ever - but management was refusing to consider Employee demands for additional pay, more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The stated mission of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is to protect Workers, but the agency is signaling that it may actively defend meatpacking corporations against Workplace Safety Lawsuits filed by Employees who contract Covid-19 on the job if the companies show they made a "good faith" effort to comply more»

(DAYTON, OHIO) - The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has dismissed a charge that Fuyao Glass America suppressed a Unionization Campaign at its Moraine, Ohio Plant. Comments that apparently led to the charge were captured in the Oscar-winning Netflix documentary “American Factory.” At the time, company leaders were concerned about a more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Leaders of some of the largest Labor Unions in the United States are warning that the Trump administration is brushing aside the interests of Workers in its distribution of trillions of dollars in Coronavirus Bailout Funds and instead using the taxpayer money to further enrich wealthy corporate executives. As funds authorized by the more»

The United States loves a good holiday and depending on how detailed a calendar one keeps, there are daily opportunities to celebrate everything from gumdrops to argyle. And given our political leaders’ penchant for trumpeting America’s manufacturing prowess and undying respect for hard-working families, there are a number of holidays - both more»

Thousands of Workers across America begged the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to investigate when their employers failed to take steps to protect them from COVID-19. They reported a lack of face mask, gloves, soap and hand sanitizer. They warned of have to share desks and stand right next to one another on production lines, despite more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - American Postal Workers Union (APWU) President Mark Dimondstein slammed Republican President Donald Trump and his administration in response to a Washington Post report that Trump is using the Coronavirus Pandemic to cripple the United States Postal Service (USPS). Trump says he will block Coronavirus aid for UUSPS if it doesn’t more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Republican President Donald Trump says his administration is aiming to shield corporations from legal responsibility for Workers who contract the Novel Coronavirus on the job, a move that the Chamber of Commerce and Right Wing advocacy groups are aggressively lobbying for as the White House pushes to reopen the U.S. economy more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – National AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says Workers can’t trust Republican President Donald Trump to lead the country back to work safely, adding Employees need more Coronavirus testing and massive supplies of protective equipment before returning to their jobs. “President Trump ‘made this crisis more»

(PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA) – United Steelworkers (USW) International President Thomas Conway says the Trump Administration’s decision to grant importers a three-month delay in paying the tariffs they owed on them ‘undermines’ Buy American, Hire American Provisions. Conway - whose Union represents 850,000 Members who are employed in more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Members of the National Nurses United (NNU), the largest Nurses Union in the United States, will protest outside the White House today (Tuesday, April 21st) to demand funding for mass production of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in the next Coronavirus Stimulus Package. The NNU said in a press release that its Members more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The head of the National AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka, says he told Republican President Donald Trump that American Workers must have input into how the U.S. economy restarts from the Coronavirus Pandemic. “Workers ‘have to have a say in how we go back at every level,’ whether it is in the industrial level, the workplace more»

COVID-19 is exposing the enormous inequality for women in work – not only here in the United States, but around the globe. With women making up 70% of the global health and social care workforce and 58.6% of that of the service sector, the pandemic spotlight is uncovering the wage and safety divide for female-dominated occupations. Workers on the more»

(ACROSS THE UNITED STATES) - After a week in which more than 10,000 Americans died from COVID-19, the U.S. media and political establishment have launched a concerted effort to get workers back to work, even as the pandemic continues to spread and kill in the United States and internationally. This effort is being spearheaded above all by the Trump more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Republican President Donald Trump’s attempt to enlist corporate executives - as well as the National AFL-CIO and other Labor Unions - in a push to reopen parts of society amid the Coronavirus Pandemic got off to a rocky start Wednesday (March 15th), with some business leaders complaining the effort was haphazard and warning that more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - As Front Line Workers, from Emergency Room Staff to Grocery Store Clerks, face an elevated risk of contracting COVID-19, they have little in the way of regulatory protections to fall back on. Democrats’ efforts to move Worker Protections through Congress have so far been stymied and a regulatory process launched by the U.S. more»

(LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA) - As state governments and hospitals have scrambled to obtain masks and other medical supplies during the Coronavirus Pandemic, scammers attempted to sell a fake stockpile of 39 million masks to a California Labor Union. The Los Angeles Times first reported the FBI had uncovered the scam, which has been traced back to a broker in more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Republican President Donald Trump has dismissed requests for emergency funding for the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service, attributing its financial woes to mismanagement as the agency sounds the alarm about the negative impacts of the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic. Prior to the passage of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic more»

(RICHMOND, VIRGINIA) - In early March, State of Virginia Lawmakers passed a Bill expanding collective bargaining to Public Sector Employees, signaling a huge win for the rights of those Workers in the South. But a deadline is quickly approaching. Governor Ralph Northam has until Saturday (April 11th) to sign the Bill into law or it will expire, ending the more»

OnLabor.org Editor’s Note: Lynn Rhinehart was General Counsel of the National AFL-CIO until July 2018. She is a currently Senior Fellow at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). That’s it. The Trump appointees to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) need to be removed for neglect of duty and malfeasance – now. The latest more»

CommonDream.org Editor’s Note: Amy Silverman is a Registered Nurse and writer who is passionate about social justice and health care reform. She works at Holos Health, a medical cannabis and functional medicine practice in Boulder, Colorado. Nurses are the canaries in the coal mine. We can sing from our cages about the impending catastrophic more»

(COLUMBUS, NEW MEXICO) - Efforts are fully under way around the country to slow the spread of Coronavirus, with Americans under stay-at-home orders, allowed out only for essential work - but not everywhere. Construction of Republican President Donald Trump’s massive border wall is continuing here along a barren stretch of the border between Mexico more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The Republican Trump Administration diminished the scope of a Coronavirus Aid Law that went into effect last week. The law, which guarantees paid leave, ensures coverage for 25% of the workforce, according to published Department of Labor guidelines. Lawmakers are criticizing the Labor Department guidelines, saying they "violate 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) was passing a rule to make it harder to win a Union Election. The proposed rule was published on April 1st and contains several more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – The National AFL-CIO says now that COVID-19 has been declared a pandemic, and that the disease is spreading quickly across the United States in just a matter of weeks, the human and economic impact has become devastating for Working People. In light of these developments, the Labor Movement is mobilizing and doing everything it more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Just as Delivery Personnel, Medical Staffers and just about everyone who has to be out in First Responder roles is raising serious questions about lacking proper protections, the Federal Government has found this is the time to suspend Union Elections. Given the date, it sounds like a cruel April Fools’ Day joke. But it is a more»