Why Do We Need Medicaid?

AFL-CIO Outlines Framework For A NAFTA Renegotiation That Benefits Workers, Not Multinational

The AFL-CIO has revealed an extensive set of formal recommendations for a major re-negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Trump Technical College Visit to Promote Apprenticeships Is Sheer Hypocrisy

Millions Of American Workers Being Priced Out Of Affordable Housing

New research from the National Low Income Housing Coalition shows that millions of low-wage workers are being priced out of affordable housing in the U.S. The coalition’s Vice President for Research, Andrew Aurand, is one of the report’s authors:

Amalgamated Transit Union Continues Fight Against Milwaukee Streetcar Privatization

Transit workers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin are up in arms over city plans to bring in a private company to operate a new fleet of streetcars. The Amalgamated Transit Union is calling on the city to staff the streetcar system with workers from the County Transit System, one of few major employers in the city that provides jobs to a predominantly minority workforce. Instead, the city is currently considering front-runner Transdev, a Fre

Misclassification And Wage Theft: L.A. & Long Beach Port Truck Drivers On Strike

Port Truck Drivers are back on the picket lines this week at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California. Beginning Monday, this is the 15th strike since 2014 by drivers who are fed up with the abuse and exploitation of years of systematic wage theft and misclassification of drivers as independent contractors.

Repealing Prevailing Wage Law Would Cost Wisconsin Taxpayers $300 Million A Year

The GOP plan to repeal the Prevailing Wage law in Wisconsin will cost taxpayers more than $300 million a year.

Chicago Teachers Union Will Vote On Merger Adding 1000 Charter School Teachers

The Chicago Teachers Union will vote this Fall on whether or not to approve a merger with The Chicago Alliance of Charter Teachers. A thousand union teachers from 32 charter schools in the Chicago area voted to join the Chicago Teachers Union. Now members of the Chicago teachers Union will have their chance to vote on whether to approve the merger with the Chicago Alliance of Charter Teachers.

International Domestic Workers Federation Seeks Full Labor Rights For 67 Million Domestic Workers

International Domestic Workers Federation President Myrtle Witbooi, speaking on Canada’s Radio Labour, says the 67 million domestic workers in the world deserve full worker rights in their respective nations. Witbooi says the International Domestic Workers Federation is organized and run to be the global voice of domestic workers.

U.S. Supreme Court Takes Wisconsin Gerrymandering case

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case from Wisconsin alleging that state political districts were drawn unconstitutionally by Republicans to illegally benefit Republicans.

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