3+ week, 4+ day ago   (911+ words) CHICAGO—In his valedictory address to the AFSCME convention in Chicago this week, union President Lee Saunders, who is retiring after 14 years in the top job, urged its delegates to “keep the pressure on” to oust anti-worker politicians from public…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (982+ words) GRAND BLANC, Mich.—Anyone driving down Holly Rd. would be hard-pressed to miss the entrance to the newly acquired Henry Ford Hospital. In the eight months since Labor Day, local nurses have picketed outside with signs that read, “patient care…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (626+ words) ATLANTA—“We work, we sweat, put $25 on our check!” These were the words bouncing off buildings in downtown Atlanta on Friday during the 2026 National Jobs With Justice conference. Waffle House workers, flanked by labor allies, descended on the company’s Centennial…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1480+ words) ASHEVILLE, N.C.—Molly Zenker is a former nurse at Mission Hospital, a medical center owned by HCA Healthcare Inc., who is known throughout the western North Carolina working class movement as a labor organizer with National Nurses United. In an interview…...

4+ mon, 4+ day ago   (875+ words) BELLINGHAM, Wash.—The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Workers, who represent the employees at the REI retail outdoor equipment chain, a co-op, asked REI’s 70,000 co-op members and other consumers to vote with their feet and stay away from its stores....

4+ mon, 6+ day ago   (987+ words) NEW ORLEANS—More than 600 registered nurses at New Orleans’ and Louisiana’s first unionized hospital concluded a planned five-day strike at 6:59 a.m. on May 6 after starting it the morning of the mass May Day protests nationwide. Key issues for the…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (897+ words) DETROIT—Over 500 union members, immigrant rights advocates, and working-class Detroiters converged on Roosevelt Park in the city’s Corktown neighborhood Friday, marking May Day with a rally and march that drew together the Metro Detroit AFL-CIO, community organizations, and protest groups…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (491+ words) That era is over. When the people of Minnesota shut down their state to protest ICE occupation in January, the AFL-CIO, SEIU, Teachers, Unite HERE, and ATU were in the lead, showing what’s possible. In temperatures of -30 degrees, over 100,000 workers…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1389+ words) WASHINGTON—Workers’ rights and workers’ causes will be the main emphasis, but not the only one, when millions of people take to the streets in more than 3,000 demonstrations nationwide to reclaim May Day as the special holiday for workers. If…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (338+ words) In October 1884, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions unanimously set May 1 as the day on which the eight-hour workday would become standard, stating, “Eight hours shall constitute a legal day’s labor, from and after May 1, 1886, and that we…...