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Next Up for Wal-Mart Pay Raises: Department Managers
In this Feb. 17, 2009 file photo, shoppers leave a Wal-Mart in Danvers, Mass. Wal-Mart is raising starting wages for more than 100,000 U.S. department managers and workers in its deli and other...
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Unions Subdued, Scott Walker Turns to Tenure at Wisconsin Colleges
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker acknowledges people in the gallery during Governor’s State of the State address to a joint session of the Legislature in the Assembly chambers at the state Capitol, Tuesday,...
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Black Workers Could Save Dying Unions
(Light Brigading/Flickr/CC By N.C.-2.0) J. Weston Phippen, THE NATIONAL JOURNAL (The National Journal) — As the country added 280,000 jobs in May, unemployment remained unchanged this month, though...
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Organized Labor Takes Gamble by Battling Obama’s Trade Bill
In this April 25, 2015 file photo, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks in Waukee, Iowa. Organized labors fierce opposition to President Barack Obamas trade agenda threatens to split the political left...
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In Next Strike Against Unions, GOP States Go After Wage Laws
In this June 9, 2015, photo, construction crews work on the site of the new Detroit Red Wings arena in Detroit. Expanding the Republican Partys battle with organized labor, several GOP-dominated...
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Dems Still Steamed Over Labor’s Trade Attacks
President Obama hugs Chris Harris, Vice President of United Steel Workers Local 2-209, after being introduced at Laborfest 2014 at Henry Maier Festival Park Monday, Sept. 1, 2014, in Milwaukee. (AP...
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Labor Board Blocks Effort to Unionize College Athletes
In this April 25, 2014, file photo, unidentified Northwestern football players walk between their locker room and McGaw Hall, where voting is taking place on the student athlete union question, in...
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Labor Unions Facing Tricky Choice in Democratic Primaries
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, speaks with Doug McCarron, president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, left, and Bill Irwin Jr.,...
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Ruling Could Ease Way for Unionizing at Fast-Food Chains
This May 2, 2012, file photo shows a sign advertising job openings outside a McDonalds restaurant in Chesterland, Ohio. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File) NEW YORK (AP) — It could be easier for unions to...
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UAW Workers Appear to Have Rejected Fiat Chrysler Contract
In this July 14, 2015 file photo, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne, left, and United Auto Workers President Dennis Williams talk during a ceremony to mark the opening of contract...
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Labor Issues to Pressure McDonald’s Despite Pay Bump
This May 2, 2012, file photo shows a sign advertising job openings outside a McDonalds restaurant in Chesterland, Ohio. McDonald’s on Wednesday, April 1, 2015 said it’s raising pay for workers at its...
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Are Labor Unions Too Strong?
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The other day I found myself engaged in a casual discussion with someone next to me on an airplane. In the course of the conversation, I mentioned that I had...
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Workers Claim Race Bias as Farms Rely on Immigrants
[New York Times] Working for hours on end under a punishing sun, the pickers are said to be crowded into squalid camps, driven without a break and even cheated of wages. (Grant Blankenship for The New...
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Rate of Union Membership Greater for Blacks
William Spriggs, chief economist for the AFL-CIO appreciates union-won benefits. [NNPA NEWS WIRE SERVICE] By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Black workers are 19...
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One thing that I wish that President Obama had Said
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I was pleased that President Obama spent so much time on the matter of economic inequality and the need to raise the minimum wage in his State of the Union...
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Supreme Court Seeks to Gut Labor Unions
By Bill Fletcher Jr. NNPA Columnist The Supreme Court’s decision in the case of Harris v Quinn essentially means that personal care attendants who are represented by a union do not need to pay a...
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As the Rich Get Richer, Unions Are Poised for Comeback
The assembly line at the General Motors Fairfax plant in Kansas City, Mo. G.M. said union workers would receive profit-sharing checks that exclude the costs of recalls. (Orlin Wagner/Associated Press)...
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It’s Not Just Right-to-Work: Bills Targeting Unions Multiply
In this Nov. 13, 2014 file photo, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka speaks in Washington. Republicans lawmakers in statehouses nationwide are working to weaken organized labor, sometimes with efforts...
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Working People’s Town Hall and a Ride to the Polls
By Peter White NASHVILLE, TN – It’s a tradition around election time for Democratic Party hopefuls to gather at some union hall, taste some cherry tomatoes, salami, and cheese chucks and promise to...
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OP-ED: Beverage Taxes Are Not the Health Solution that Working Families Need
(Photo: iStockPhoto / NNPA)By Stuart Appelbaum, President of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) Every month, it seems another state or local government holds a vote on whether...
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