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Leveling out the distribution of wealth in the United State is going to take years, said former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich to a joint congressional committee, but increasing the minimum wage is a great place to start. “Widening inequality challenges the nation’s core ideal of equal opportunity, because it hampers upward mobility,” said Reich.
Read moreIn an effort to help some 1.3 million unemployed Americans tread water in these difficult times, Democrats returned to Washington this week armed with stories from unemployed Americans in their home states who were dropped from the federal unemployment benefit rolls on December 28, 2013. Congress neglected to extend the benefits leaving the 1.3 million
Read moreTony Rippeto IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger announced the appointment of District 9 Directing Business Representative (DBR) Tony Rippeto to serve on the IAM Law Committee. Rippeto will fill the position previously held by retired Law Committee member Ellen Arbogast. “Ellen Arbogast is retiring after an extraordinary union career that’s spanned nearly four decades,” said
Read moreMore than a hundred union members from IAM, TCU and NFFE worked all day to construct frames for six Habitat for Humanity homes in San Antonio, TX. It’s a common refrain from critics, or maybe a family member or colleague: “Young people are too apathetic to care about labor unions or workers’ rights.” It couldn’t
Read moreDemonstrators picket in favor of equal voting rights outside the GOP convention hall in Chicago in July 1960. Photo by Francis Miller/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images When the Supreme Court overturned critical portions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act in June of last year, it kicked the responsibility of replacement legislation to one of the least-productive
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