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We're Not Slowing Down: The Labor Movement Must Keep Up The Fight For Voting Rights

It was deeply disappointing that just days after our nation paid homage to the great civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

We're Not Slowing Down: The Labor Movement Must Keep Up The Fight For Voting Rights

Baltimore County Public Library Employees Vote Overwhelmingly to Join IAM

460 full-time and part-time library workers voted 77% in favor of forming a union with the Machinists (IAM). The successful vote comes after years of organizing, which included the IAM winning a new state law allowing BCPL employees to collectively bargain.

Baltimore County Public Library Employees Vote Overwhelmingly to Join IAM

Politics and Prose Becomes First Unionized Bookstore in DC

Politics and Prose Becomes First Unionized Bookstore in DC

The Badass 50: #21 Liz Schuler

"We are building pathways and support structures to grow a bold, inclusive, and transformative movement — I think that's pretty badass," says Shuler, the first woman elected president of the AFL-CIO 

The Badass 50: #21 Liz Schuler

Richard Trumka: The Labor Leader Who Told Hard Truths

here weren’t many strikes in recent decades in which working people scored big victories, but the 1989 Pittston strike was one.

Richard Trumka: The Labor Leader Who Told Hard Truths

U.S. Labor Movement's Next Frontier is the Tech Industry, AFL-CIO's Shuler Says

The U.S. tech sector is the next frontier for labor organizing, and its workers are starting to understand the collective power unions have, President of the AFL-CIO Liz Shuler said on Friday at the Reuters Next Conference.

U.S. Labor Movement's Next Frontier is the Tech Industry, AFL-CIO's Shuler Says