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WASHINGTON—Filling a gap that went unmentioned 60 years ago, more than three dozen woman activists, including union leaders, spoke out for jobs, workers’ rights, civil rights, voting rights, and women’s rights at a conference the Poor People’s Campaign called.
Asks both Government to shift the funds to combat Global Warming By Mark Gruenberg Senator Bernie Sanders is proposing the United States and the People’s Republic of China mutually agree to cut military spending, shifting the money to combatting global warming. Sanders made his proposal in an Op-ed in The Guardian on August 21. But
WASHINGTON —The labor movement may be graying, according to federal data, but not according to opinion polls for the AFL-CIO, and not according to a panel of young workers gathered there in the run-up to Labor Day to answer the question, “Why unionize?” The answers were as varied as the four y...
WASHINGTON —When Everett Kelley, the Doctor of Theology who’s now the president of the American Federation of Government Employees, first encountered specific white racism targeted directly at him, he was three years old. As a young Black boy growing up in small rural Goodwater, Ala.
PHILADELPHIA—As unions and their members move deeper into the 21st century, they face new threats of different types: Artificial intelligence, with its potential to wipe out millions of jobs, and corporate and political autocrats hellbent on controlling and oppressing workers.