CWA's New Jersey area director Hetty Rosenstein talks with Bloomberg about Republican Gov. Chris Christie's plan to overhaul the state's employment rules for civil-service workers.
House Republicans would like us to think they’re family friendly. But their nearly party-line vote of 223-204 on the “Working Families Flexibility Act” is just the latest piece of GOP legislation that does the exact opposite of what its name suggests.
In 1867, American workers launched the first mass labor protest on May 1st to celebrate Illinois’s new eight-hour work day law. Today, nearly 150 years later, we carry on that May Day celebration of the rights of the working class by mobilizing for comprehensive immigration reform.
CWA President Larry Cohen and scores of CWA activists joined more than 6,000 coal miners, their families and supporters from across the country in St. Louis on Monday to protest Patriot Coal's motion to cut health benefits for 10,000 retired miners in federal bankruptcy court.
By Kenneth Quinnell, AFL-CIO NOW The National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) and The Nation are asking people to take action against the deportation of aspiring citizens.