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In the op-ed “Guess Who Came to Dinner; Guess Who Didn’t Even Get Asked?” Leo Hindery, Chairman of the Smart Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation, points to the president’s dinner in Silicon Valley last month with eight of his new “BFFs” – each the CEO of an internet-related company including Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg,
Read moreIn a continuation of the coordinated attack on working families and their right to bargain collectively, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), along with seven other GOP members of the U.S. Senate, introduced national “right-to-work” legislation. Original co-sponsors include Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Mike Lee (R-UT), Rand Paul (R-KY), James Risch (R-ID), Pat Toomey
Read moreThe White House has honored IAM District 751 and eight of its members for outstanding community service in 2010. The union was awarded a gold-level President’s Volunteer Service Award for the 6,197 hours that 684 members volunteered in 144 different community service projects sponsored by the Machinists Volunteer Program last year. These included food drives,
Read moreThe largest earthquake ever recorded in Japan, an 8.9 magnitude quake off the country’s east coast, has caused extensive damage in Japan and generated potentially damaging tsunamis across the Pacific and West Coasts of the United States and Canada. “Our deep concern goes out to the people of Japan, especially those in the Japanese labor
Read moreThe AFL-CIO has called for all of us to take a stand for solidarity on April 4th. On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, where he had gone to stand with sanitation workers demanding their dream: The right to bargain collectively for a voice at work and a better
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