Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of labor—fast food CEO Andrew Puzder—would be a disaster for working Americans. He’s railed against a meaningful increase in the minimum wage, opposed expanding overtime pay and supported replacing working people with machines. Of his Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s restaurants that were investigated for labor law complaints, 60% were found to have violated the law.

The National Law Employment Project says workers in at least 40 cities and states will get raises in 2017. The federal minimum wage is still stuck at $7.25 cents an hour because Republicans in Congress refuse to raise it.

The fight for social justice is a full-time job.  That’s been the driving philosophy behind the Davis Putter Scholarship Fund for more than half-a-century.  The fund provides grants to students actively working for peace and justice.

After paralyzing operations at the offshore platforms and refineries of Brazil’s troubled National Oil Company Petrobras for the last three days, workers ended a strike Monday.  Members of the Federation of Petroleum Workers walked off the job just before Christmas after rejecting a proposed salary increase that fell short of inflation.  The union is also concerned about a contract changes that could reduce hours for the company’s 85,000 workers. 

AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka says American workers need a president who sees workers as "partners to be engaged, not as subjects to be manipulated."

Trumka says workers don't need a savior to speak for us, we want to raise up our own voices through unions.