When Richard Trumka, the head of the nation’s largest labor union coalition, the AFL-CIO, visited the Occupy Wall Street protesters last week, he offered a simple message. “We are going to support them in any way we can,” he said. “We’re not going to try to usurp them in any way.” Those marching orders have since been spread across the …
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In Wisconsin Recall Fight, Republicans Hold the Line
Wisconsin Democrats knocked off two GOP state senators on Tuesday night, exacting a hard-fought political price on Republican lawmakers for restricting collective bargaining rights of state and local employees. National advocacy …
What Wisconsin Has Wrought: Labor Unrest Spreads
On Tuesday afternoon, the 12 members of Ohio’s Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor Committee convened in a corner room on the second floor of the state senate building in Columbus. No vote or amendment was on the agenda, just a hearing on what is simply called Senate Bill 5. Outside the door, hundreds of protesters pressed into the …
The TSA Labor Saga Comes to a Conclusion
Remember when President Obama nominated airport security vet Erroll Southers to run the Transportation Security Administration? And Jim DeMint placed a hold on his nomination because he was worried the guy would allow TSA screeners to unionize? And nothing happened for a long time? And then Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to ignite his …
Obama Looks For The Philly Union Label
I don’t want to make too much about size. But Obama’s room at this Pennsylvania AFL-CIO conference is a third larger than Clinton’s, though this room is much airier – Clinton’s was packed cheek-to-jowl.
Obama did his best to get the crowd “Fired Up and Ready to Go.” He even told that Greenwood, South Carolina story at the …