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When Republicans picked up two Democratic seats in the U.S. House of Representatives in special elections, it was big news. The media, however, is ignoring the grassroots rejection of the GOP attack on working families in races for state-level offices where anti-labor Republicans are seeing serious losses. Republicans gained control of governorships and state legislatures
Read moreIn every Congressional District across America, Postal Service unionists are organizing rallies to be held on Tuesday, September 27, 2011. The U.S. Postmaster General is calling for a draconian restructuring plan that would result in the elimination of more than 100,000 postal workers’ jobs and the shutdown of over 3,000 local post offices. The
Read moreWorking families have less than 14 hours and counting to stop Congress from shipping hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs overseas. According to the IAM’s new Countdown to Calamity Clock, Congress is set to vote on three seriously-flawed free trade agreements (FTAs) on October 4. The pending trade deals with South Korea, Colombia and Panama
Read moreCongress is set to vote October 4 on three seriously-flawed free trade agreements (FTAs) with South Korea, Colombia and Panama. Should the pending FTAs negotiated by the Bush administration pass, more than 159,000 middle-class jobs will be shipped overseas. With our country suffering from persistent high unemployment, we cannot afford more NAFTA-style trade agreements that
Read moreA strong presence by labor in the halls of Congress made all the difference in the fight to defeat an amendment that would have eliminated a key enforcement remedy available to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The amendment, introduced in the Senate Appropriations Committee by South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsay Graham, would strip the
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