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Catholic Church Files Brief Supporting Union in Janus Case
The Supreme Court is set to hear Janus v. AFSCME on February 26th and both sides are getting all of their documents in. One such document is called an amicus brief, or a friend of the court brief....
MLK Day is Our Day
All movements derive from the union movement. The will and desire to be treated fairly and have access to opportunity and progress is almost the sole mission of all social, economic and progressive...
AFL-CIO Pressures Nike to Pay Their Taxes
For years, many on the left have been alleging that companies have been storing profits in low tax countries to avoid paying taxes in the United States. While there was a lot of circumstantial...
Labor Wins in 2017 Elections
Last night there were many labor victories including Boston Mayor and former head of the Boston Building Trades Marty Walsh getting reelected, New York rejecting a Constitutional Convention and...
AFL-CIO Maps Out Labor's Future
This week, the AFL-CIO met in St. Louis for their 2017 convention. Along with re-electing their governing board, the delegates passed a number of resolutions. These resolutions will govern the issues...
Everybody Re-elected at the AFL-CIO
This weekend, union leaders began the 2017 AFL-CIO convention. The convention, which happens every four years, included the election of the AFL-CIO leadership including President, Secretary/Treasurer...
AFL-CIO Seeking Volunteers for Puerto Rico Relief Effort
The AFL-CIO is coordinating relief efforts for Puerto Rico. We hope that UAW Region 9A could supply a few volunteers, however, please read the information (see below) closely, it is a rigorous...
North Carolina AFL-CIO Elects First Female President
MaryBe McMillan becomes the first woman to lead the North Carolina labor movement after being unanimously elected president of the North Carolina State AFL-CIO during the 60th annual convention that...
$500 Million AFL-CIO Trust in Houston
With many areas of Houston facing years of rebuilding, the AFL-CIO has announced that they are interested in stepping in and investing $500 Million in long term investments to rebuild affordable...
UCOMM Ed: Who was Samuel Gompers
Samuel Gompers was the first and longest-serving president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL); it is to him, as much as to anyone else, that the American labor movement owes its structure and...