Kentucky Local 1969 member Dean McCoy recently testified at an International Trade Commission hearing with an emotional five-minute plea that conveyed frustration felt by many middle-class workers who are forced to compete against cheap Chinese goods.
Read moreA House hearing on the federal government’s tracking and use of union “official time” is the latest hit in a growing list of attacks on the federal workforce.
Read moreAmerican workers need more job training opportunities like IAM District 15’s Youth Transition to Work program, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker said at a recent meeting with labor and business leaders.
Read moreReposted from the St. Louis Labor Tribune. It was standing-room-only at the Tri-County Labor Club’s most recent meeting, as union members jockeyed for position to learn, “What do we do now that Missouri’s ‘right-to-work’ legislation has been signed into law?”
Read moreNew Hampshire workers are the real winners today as state legislators not only voted down “right-to-work” for the state, but also banned consideration of the anti-worker law for the rest of the two-year session. New Hampshire would have been the first New England state to go “right-to-work.”
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