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Today, fast food workers around the world engaged in a one-day strike for higher wages and the right to join a union. The events – which are a part of the growing “Fight for Fifteen” movement – took place on May 15 as a symbol of the $15 minimum wage U.S. workers deserve to be
Read moreMachinists, the AFL-CIO and the International Labor Rights Forum rallied in Washington, D.C. to mark the one-year anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh. Last April over one-thousand garment workers died, and 2,500 were injured, when the poorly built factory came crashing down. American union activists are demanding better working conditions for Bangladeshi garment
Read moreMartimiano, third from right, distributes T-shirts that read, translated into English, “Stop sexism, racism and homophobia.” In São José dos Campos, about an hour’s drive from the Brazilian metropolis of São Paulo, working at Embraer is like wearing a badge of honor. People there are proud of the homegrown aerospace manufacturer; now the world’s No.
Read moreAFL-CIO President Richard Trumka highlighted the destruction the Trans-Pacific Partnership would cause the middle class in a speech at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC. Twenty years after the ratification of NAFTA, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and other worker advocates are speaking out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), another free-trade deal that promises
Read moreImagine being hired to assemble planes at Embraer in Brazil and then being forced to do janitorial work, all because you’re a woman. Then, imagine the company calling the local psychiatric hospital and telling them to put you in a strait-jacket and take you away from the shop floor. That’s what happened to Telma Cristina
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