Quantcast
Channel: Richard Trumka – Today’s Workplace
Browsing all 26 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Chamber of Commerce's Jobs Deception Campaign

Unions are popularly known as “the folks who brought you the weekend.” In contrast, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has the distinction of trying to take away the weekend–along with overtime pay, the...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Reid: Public Option Will Be in Health Care Bill

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced in a Capitol Hill press conference today that he will send a health care reform bill to the Senate floor that includes a public option. States will...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Showdown in Chicago: Thousands Protest Bankers

More than 5,000 people are packing the streets of downtown Chicago this morning, chanting, marching and rallying against Big Bankers and financial institutions that have taken taxpayer money and are...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Hotel Workers, Trumka Arrested at Sit-In for Fair Contract

More than 100 union members, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and UNITEHERE! President John Wilhelm were arrested at a sit-in demanding justice and a fair contract for San Francisco hotel workers last...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Working Class Has Spoken. Will Democrats Listen?

Credit: Joe Kekeris Massachusetts voters sent a strong signal to Washington lawmakers Tuesday that they want results—and aren’t seeing any. Not on health care reform, not on job creation and not on...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

G-20 Labor Leaders Meet at AFL-CIO for Labor Summit

When the world’s banks were going under, governments jumped to their aid. Now with record numbers of people out of work, it’s past time for governments to put working people first, or the fledgling...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Workers Mobilizing to Get Fair Pay for Music Artists

For the past 80 years, radio stations have used the publicly owned airwaves to make billions of dollars playing music without paying anything to the artists who created it. AFL-CIO President Richard...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

AFL-CIO: NFL Lockout Would Hurt Communities

The Minnesota Vikings and the New Orleans Saints kicked off the NFL season in a show of solidarity Thursday night and the AFL-CIO has taken the field in the players’ behalf. In a letter released...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Job Tracker: Outsourcers Can Run, But Now They Can’t Hide

In the past decade, more than 5 million manufacturing jobs and 850,000 information sector jobs have disappeared—many of which have been shipped overseas. This outsourcing is encouraged by faulty trade...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Trumka: TPP Is a New Low

In a new op-ed for the Hill, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka explains the key reasons why the Trans-Pacific Partnership is bad for working people, both in the United States and overseas. Trumka...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

5 Things You Need to Know from the AFL-CIO's New Executive Paywatch Report

Today, the AFL-CIO released the 2017 edition of its Executive Paywatch report. The Executive Paywatch website, the most comprehensive, searchable online database tracking CEO pay, showed that in 2016,...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Working People Need to Know If We Can Trust Donald Trump’s NLRB Nominees to...

President Donald Trump chose two nominees for the National Labor Relations Board whose commitment to the freedom of working people to come together and negotiate is seriously in doubt. These two men,...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

In Their Own Words: Why Immigrant Worker Protections Must Be Extended

A primary goal of the labor movement is to make every job in our country a good job. To do that, we must and we will stand with every worker in the fight for basic rights and dignity on the job. More...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Labor Day 2017: Working People Take Fewer Vacation Days and Work More

Working people are taking fewer vacation days and working more. That’s the top finding in a new national survey, conducted by polling firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research for the AFL-CIO in...

View Article

AFL-CIO Joins CWA Call for $4,000 Wage Increase for Working People

The Donald Trump administration repeatedly has claimed that its tax bill would result in a $4,000 wage increase for working people. Today, the AFL-CIO has joined a campaign by the Communications...

View Article


The Fight Against Racism Starts in the Union

“In your union or workplace, what’s a situation where you’ve observed or experienced racism?” That’s the first question we ask people to discuss, in groups of three, as part of a Race and Labor...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Workers Mobilizing to Get Fair Pay for Music Artists

For the past 80 years, radio stations have used the publicly owned airwaves to make billions of dollars playing music without paying anything to the artists who created it. AFL-CIO President Richard...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

AFL-CIO: NFL Lockout Would Hurt Communities

The Minnesota Vikings and the New Orleans Saints kicked off the NFL season in a show of solidarity Thursday night and the AFL-CIO has taken the field in the players’ behalf. In a letter released...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Job Tracker: Outsourcers Can Run, But Now They Can’t Hide

In the past decade, more than 5 million manufacturing jobs and 850,000 information sector jobs have disappeared—many of which have been shipped overseas. This outsourcing is encouraged by faulty trade...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Trumka: TPP Is a New Low

In a new op-ed for the Hill, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka explains the key reasons why the Trans-Pacific Partnership is bad for working people, both in the United States and overseas. Trumka...

View Article
Browsing all 26 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images