AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka issued the following statement in response to a leaked executive order from President Donald Trump's administration:
Credible news outlets now are reporting a potential far-reaching attack on working people everywhere under the guise of religious freedom. The leaked executive order draft constitutes nothing less than a license to discriminate against LGBTQ people, women and workers of minority faiths.
The French union CGT is urging its members at Air France to resist Trump's immigrant ban by not working on U.S. bound flights.
CGT says "we invite all employees who are struck by these anti-humanist practices to refuse to treat US flights under these conditions." The union says members are within their rights to refuse to work on U.S. bound flights in protests over Trump's immigrant ban.
Last week, President Donald Trump instituted a federal hiring freeze with no end in sight.
The National Employment Law Project's Catherine Ruckelshaus says under CEO Andy Puzder CKE restaurants have a culture of not complying with labor laws.
If Puzder didn't make sure labor law was followed where he was CEO how can workers expect Puzder to enforce labor law if he becomes Labor Secretary?
"The culture at the company is not one of complying with basis laws. And that's the problem.
Thirty-three new labor law violation charges were filed this week against CKE - Andy Puzder's fast food chain. Puzder is Trump's nominee for U.S. Labor Secretary, a job that's supposed to enforce labor laws to improve workers lives.
The charges include sexual harassment, wage theft through wage and hour violations and unfair labor practice charges.
Charges were filed at the NLRB, the EEOC and state labor departments across ten states.
U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan says Andy Puzder should be rejected as U.S. Labor Secretary.
"President Trump likes to tweet and talk about putting hard-working Americans first but at the end of the day he wants to make sure that only big business and special interests have a seat at the table and that's why he nominated Andy Puzder."
President Donald Trump did not say anything about health care in his inaugural address, but one of his first official actions as president was to issue an executive order focused on the Affordable Care Act. While the executive order does not tell working people a whole lot about what he plans to do, it’s worth looking at a few things he did and didn’t say in his first official action on health care.
In two op-eds this week, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka called upon Donald Trump to embrace policies that will help working people, not roll back the hard-fought gains that so many have sacrifice
The Chicago Teacher's Union is joining a diverse community coalition calling on the Chicago Public Schools to pass and implement sanctuary policies.
CTU says it is to "eliminate student criminalization, protect students from arrests and deportations" and support students by providing wraparound services and rapid response training and protocols for school personnel.
The teacher's union held a press conference in Chicago Tuesday to join with the community coalition in demanding safe sanctuary schools in Chicago.