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Police unions come in for questioning

Jul 1, 2020

Police unions have almost always been an awkward fit in the House of Labor.

AFL-CIO’s OSHA suit dismissed

Jul 1, 2020

COVID-19 has killed more workers in a shorter time than any other health emergency in OSHA’s 50-year existence, but the agency has refused to require employers to take any specific action to protect workers.

Labor confronts police brutality

Jun 17, 2020

Union members are taking part in protests, joining morning-after cleanup parties, and even walking off the job in support of Black Lives Matter.

Unions react as the nation explodes in protest over George Floyd killing

Jun 2, 2020

“in the end, the labor movement is not a building,” said the president of the AFL-CIO after protesters trashed AFL-CIO headquarters lobby in D.C.

AFL-CIO sues OSHA

Jun 2, 2020

COVID-19 has caused more deaths among workers in a shorter time than any other health emergency in OSHA’s 50-year existence, yet the agency hasn’t required employers to take any action to protect people on the job.

U.S. House passes labor law reform

Feb 18, 2020

The PRO Act would restore the power of workers to unionize, bargain collectively, and strike.

AFL-CIO endorses Trump’s revised re-write of NAFTA trade treaty

Dec 18, 2019

For the first time in a generation, NAFTA is getting a re-write, and even America’s premier trade union federation has endorsed the final draft.

Trump names Eugene Scalia as his pick for new Labor Secretary

Aug 16, 2019

AFL-CIO blasts the choice — a former WalMart lawyer and son of union nemesis Antonin Scalia.

America’s top union leader pops into Portland

Apr 16, 2019

National AFL-CIO president Rich Trumka was in Portland for an Organizing Summit — a training for unionists on organizing tactics, messaging around common sense economics, and how to build worker power in the wake of the Supreme Court’s anti-union Janus decision.

Oregon native named to top job at AFL-CIO’s Department For Professional Employees

Sep 5, 2018

Jennifer Dorning is the first woman to hold the post at the coalition of 24 national unions in professional, technical, and other highly skilled occupations.