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February 2006
Two Unions Withdraw from Building and Construction Trades Department
America’s Elderly, Low-Income, Suffer Most Under Bush Budget
More U.S. Workers Unemployed than Government Statistics Show
Two More Coal Miners Die; Bush Mine Appointee Rejects Stronger Safety Rules
Republican-Backed Budget Bill Bashes Working Families
Bush’s State of the Union Ignores Working People’s Needs
January 2006
Global Union Leaders Call for More High-Paying Jobs
Bush Mine Nominee Says Safety Rules Don’t Need Fixing
Shirley Temple Black, Philip Seymour Hoffman Among SAG Honorees
Union Safety Experts Allowed in Sago Mine After Company Bars Them
Striking NYU Students Vow to Hold the Line
Draconian Rules for Defense Department Workers Delayed
UAW: Ford Job Cuts ‘Didn’t Have To Happen’
‘Long Overdue CEO Pay Reform Plan Not Enough’
AFL-CIO President Sweeney: What if Bush Told the Truth About the Economy?
AFL-CIO King Day Celebration Focuses on Katrina Survivors
Report: Wal-Mart Drains Tax Dollars from Local Communities
Maryland First State to Make Corporations Pay Their Fair Share
Unions Seek Protection for Front-Line Workers in Case of Flu Pandemic
Alito's Supreme Court Nomination: A Grave Threat to Working Families
Mine Tragedy Raises Questions About Bush Administration’s Lack of Safety Enforcement
AFL-CIO Launches Fair Share Health Care Campaign in 33 States
President Bush Delivers a ‘Stunning Blow’ to America’s Steel Pipe Workers
The New York Times Notes AFL-CIO Push for Higher Minimum Wage
December 2005
Congress, Cheney to Working Families: Bah, Humbug
Majority of Americans Say Nation Is on the Wrong Track
Workers Across the Globe Call for Freedom to Form Unions
Congress: The Grinch that Stole the Holidays?
Republican-Led House Hands Middle Class the Tax Bill—Again
Bakery Workers’ Struggle Shows Why U.S. Labor Law Must Change
New Reports on CEO Pay: How High Is Too High?
From White House to California, Workers Call For Freedom to Form Unions
Nobel Peace Laureates: The Right to Form Unions ‘Is Vital’
Workers Campaign Worldwide to Restore Freedom to Form Unions
Dec. 10 Events Nationwide: Grinches, Caroling and Candlelight Vigils
November 2005
Federal Employees Gain Ground Against Unfair Bush Rules
Unions Call Delphi Contract Offer ‘Ridiculous’
Congressional Leaders Muscle Through Spending Cuts for Working Family Programs
AFL-CIO ‘Ready to Roll’ on Solidarity Charters
Report Spotlights Wal-Mart’s Anti-Union Tactics
Labor Researchers: Bush Policies Perpetuate Black Poverty
Hill Leaders Fail to Muster Votes for Budget Cuts, Tax Breaks for the Rich
Working Families Win in Elections Across the Nation
Minneapolis Workers Get a Living Wage Increase
Wal-Mart: Shoppers’ Bargain, Workers’ Hell
‘Labor Laws No Longer Protect Workers’ Rights’
October 2005
Working Families Demand Voice in Rebuilding Louisiana
Wal-Mart to Employees: Only the Healthiest Need Apply
Workers Win Fair Wages as Bush Backs off Davis-Bacon Suspension
Dec. 10 Mobilization: Largest-Ever for Workers’ Rights
America’s Middle Class at Risk—Here’s Why
Republicans in Senate Vote Against Minimum Wage Workers—Again
Gulf Coast Families Struggle While Millionaires Get Massive Tax Giveaway
Union Members Help Survivors in Pakistan, Guatemala
Union Volunteers Provide Hurricane Survivors with Hands-On Support
Judge Stops Bush Effort to Eliminate Federal Workers’ Rights
Pay Raise Scorecard: Congress 8, Minimum Wage Workers 0
AFL-CIO Union Community Fund Tops $500,000 Goal in Less Than a Month
September 2005
82,000 Caregivers Approve Major Pact with Kaiser
Unemployment Help? Not Much for Gulf Coast Survivors
AFL-CIO Calls for 'New Direction'
Gulf Coast Union Leaders Demand Decent Pay for Workers
AFL-CIO Opens Worker Centers in Hard-Hit Gulf States
Fewer Employers Offer Health Coverage as Costs Continue to Rise
Bush Hurricane Recovery Plan: Say One Thing, Do the Opposite
Union Movement Outlines Steps Needed in Wake of Hurricane
Public Employees: A Professional On-the-Ground Response to Hurricane Katrina
Bush Buddies Get No-Bid Contracts While Workers Get the Shaft
Bush Uses Disaster to Ram Through Low-Wage Work
Coalition of Union Members, Community Activists Defeat Wal-Mart in Boston
Seniors Tell Lawmakers: Protect Social Security
Union Hurricane Relief News Briefs
States Risk ‘Brain Drain’ When Pay Freezes Never Thaw
Union Label Week Spotlights Quality Goods and Services
Roberts’ ‘Troubling’ Record Demands Extensive Questioning of Chief Justice Nominee
AFL-CIO Report: Immigrant Workers at Risk
August 2005
NYU Graduate Student Employees: University Is Union-Buster
Labor in the Pulpits: ‘Remembering the God-Given Dignity of Work’
This Labor Day, America’s Workers Worry About Their Future
World’s Workers Celebrate 25 Years of Solidarnosc
AFL-CIO Rolls Out Solidarity Charter Program to Reunite Local Labor Movements
No Child Left Behind Law Doesn’t Work for Children
Union Member Help Turn the Tide Against Shipyard Closing
Workers from Around the World Discuss Global Challenges
Labor Day 2005: Union Activists Launch Week of Online Action
Americans’ Health Care Debts Grow—Even for the Insured
Unions Worldwide Mobilize Support for Gate Gourmet Workers in Britain
AFL-CIO State and Local Leaders Applaud Solidarity Charters
Workers Lose Wages While Big Business Gains
Poll: Public Backs Social Security Now More Than Ever
Court Strikes Down Bush Attack on Homeland Security Workers' Rights
Building Trades Pledge to Go Forward While Seeking Unity
CAFTA Will Kill U.S. Textile Jobs, Study Shows
In a Big Brother Ruling, NLRB Says Workers Can Be Banned from Interacting Outside the Workplace
Studies: CAFTA, Exporting Jobs, Hurt Economy
July 2005
‘We Are Strong. We Are Ready to Make America Work for Working Families’
Winning for America’s Workers: Sweeney, Trumka, Chavez-Thompson Set to Lead
AFL-CIO Convention Takes on Wal-Mart, Global Economy
Delegates Praise Historic AFL-CIO Vote Calling for Rapid Withdrawal from Iraq
WORKING AMERICA: ‘A Great Opportunity to Be Heard’
New Energy, New Vision and New Strength: AFL-CIO Delegates Approve Far-Reaching Resolutions to Carry the Union Movement Forward
AFL-CIO Delegates Approve Bold Steps for Strategic Organizing
Taking First Steps to New Union Movement
Sweeney Revs Up Convention with Call to Work for Working Families
Standing Up for the Union Movement’s Core Values
Building a Union Movement that Reflects its Membership
2,000 Rally in Support of Sweeney Team
Unions Must Commit to Change to Organize
ILCA Honors Union Communicators
Unions Need Year-Round Commitment to Diversity
AFL-CIO Summit on Diversity: Unions Must Do More
Executive Council Proposes Mergers, Industry Coordinating Committees
New Jersey the Latest State to Ensure Workers Have Freedom to Form Unions
Tom Frank: Unions Must Return National Debate Back Jobs, Wages
AFL-CIO Convention Will Chart Future of Union Movement
AFL-CIO Launches TV Ads to Stop CAFTA
AFL-CIO Launches New Website
200 Workers at Quebecor Win a Union Voice
Workers Protest Assault on Federal Employees’ Rights
Unions Back Shield Law for Reporters
Battle to Stop CAFTA Moves to the House
June 2005
New Jersey Set to Expand Workers’ Freedom to Choose a Union
123 Students Graduate from National Labor College
Workers Rev Up Drive to Stop CAFTA as Treaty Goes to Congress
Bill Would Address Health Care Cost-Shifting by Corporations
Union Organizers Get Creative
Union-Backed Coalition Seeks Workplace Protections for Immigrants
Central American Legislators Urge Congress to Reject CAFTA
Iraqi Unionists Rebuilding Devastated Union Movement
Health Care for Uninsured Costs $922 for Each Worker with Health Coverage
New Report: Workers Seeking Unions Denied Fundamental Democratic Rights
Senate Confirms Extremist Judge Who Will Decide Many Cases Affecting Workers
CAFTA: A Bad Deal For Farmers
Study: Living Wage Doesn’t Cost Jobs
May 2005
Working Family Rights Threatened by Janice Rogers Brown Nomination to Federal Court
Study: Public School Students Top Private Students in Math Tests
Working Family Rights Threatened by Janice Rogers Brown Nomination to Federal Court
New Bill Would Aid Millions of Workers Who Can't Get by on Minimum Wage
Workers, Clients Tell Schwab to ‘Stop the Double Talk’ on Social Security
Republicans Set to End Run Senate Rules to Approve Extremist Judges
America’s Employees Working Harder For Less Pay
Republicans Set to End Run Senate Rules to Approve Extremist Judges
Workers Tell Congress: ‘Yes’ to Good Jobs, ‘No’ to CAFTA
Letter Carriers Will Pick Up Food Donations May 14
Wal-Mart Exec’s Comments Slap in the Face for U.S. Workers
Increase in Job Demands and Work Hours Leads to Dangers at Work
Increase in Job Demands and Work Hours Leads to Dangers at Work
Unions Fight Bush Administration Efforts to Attack Family Medical Leave
Industrial Union Council Meets to Discuss Jobs, Trade, Social Security
Bush Plan Could Eliminate Middle Class’ Social Security Benefits
April 2005
Workers Memorial Day Set to Honor 56,000 Killed and Millions Injured at Work Each Year
Workers Join Lawmakers in Launching Employee Free Choice Act
Thousands Rally to Protect Social Security as Support for Privatization Plan Plummets
Women’s Pay Gap Costs Families $200 Billion Each
National Day of Unity Set to Stop Social Security Privatization
Building Trades Conference Spotlights Jobs, Organizing, Politics
Student Fight for Workers’ Rights Spreads Nationwide
Reject Flawed CAFTA, Union Leaders Tell Congress
AFL-CIO Executive PayWatch: Shareholders Fight to Curb Runaway CEO Pay
Senate Considers ‘Nuclear Option’ to Ram Through Bush’s Extremist Judicial Nominees
Chinese Currency Law Could Save U.S. Jobs
Activists Spotlight Wal-Mart’s Role as Corporate Bad Actor
Workers to Wall Street: Don’t Destroy Social Security
Pope John Paul II: Champion of Workers' Rights
New Report: CAFTA Weakens Workers’ Rights
Find out How You Can Take Part in Union Research Summer School: Registration Deadline Is May 2
March 2005
Corporations Score Big on Capitol Hill at Working Families’ Expense
Social Security Report Shows No Need For ‘Reckless’ Privatization Scheme
Working Families Mobilizing to Stop Central American Trade Deal
Working Families Launch National Day of Action for Retirement Security
New Defense Department Workforce Rules ‘Threaten National Security’
‘Truth Truck’ to Deliver 1 Million Messages Opposing Social Security Privatization
Report: Security Privatization Would Hurt Older Workers
Unions Strategize to Meet Needs of High-Tech Professionals
Working Women Spotlight Wage Gap, Retirement Security
Senate Votes Against Pay Raise for Minimum Wage Workers
AFL-CIO Executive Council Meeting Recommends Strategic Organizing, Political Action Plans
Most Americans Oppose U.S.–Central American Trade Deal
February 2005
Big Business Group to Spend Millions Pushing Extremist Judicial Nominees
Strengthening Social Security—Key Goal of Latinos and Union Movement
U.S. Inspector General to Investigate Labor Department Deal with Wal-Mart
‘Sisters of ’77’ Documents First National Women’s Conference
Workers Fighting Bush Plan to Derail Amtrak
Workers Challenge Wal-Mart Canada Store Closure
Defense Department Publishes Plan to Eliminate Employees’ Rights
Investors Protest Financial Firm’s Support for Privatizing Social Security
Bush Budget Punishes America’s Workers and Veterans to Save Tax Breaks for Millionaires
Workers Protest Defense Department Move to Gut Civil Service
Workers Would Lose up to $152,000 if Social Security Is Privatized
Report: Women Lose Big Under Social Security Privatization
January 2005
Bush Administration Pressures Social Security Workers To Sell Privatization
Bush Administration Moves to Gut Civil Service System
Activists Take Aim at Poverty, Global Economy
Report: Meat and Poultry Workers Often Risk Their Lives on the Job
‘Women Deserve Same Social Security Benefits as Men’
Unions Honor King by Building Political Power
Two Republican Governors Rescind Workers’ Contracts, Bargaining Rights
Report: Global Effort Needed to Gain Chinese Workers’ Rights
Labor Council Sets up Aid for Mudslide Victims
Nurses Strike for Better Patient Care
White House: Cut Social Security Benefits
Bush, Republican Allies Prepare New Attack on Workers’ Overtime Pay
Union Members Aid Tsunami Victims
December 2004
Utility Workers’ Operation Family Reunion Joins Wounded Soldiers with Families
Grinch of the Year: Wal-Mart
Union Activists: Protect Social Security—Not Tax Cuts for the Rich
Massive U.S. Trade Deficit Undercuts U.S. Workers
Union-Busting 101 in South Carolina
Cast Your Ballot for Corporate Grinch of the Year
Dec. 10: Workers Highlight the Freedom to Form Unions
Unions Spearhead Worker Training Investments
November 2004
Report: Public Schools Make the Grade, Charter Schools Falter
Employers Suspend Lockout of San Francisco Hotel Workers
Bush, Congressional Republicans Kill Overtime Pay Protection
Jobless Figures Hide Record Long-Term Unemployment
City of Los Angeles, Consumers, Get Set for Sweat-Free Holidays
Mail Workers Honored with Online Exhibit
AFL-CIO President Sweeney: A Letter to America’s Working Families
Survey: Union Members Backed Kerry
Nationwide Mobilization Wraps Up as Union Volunteers Get Out the Vote
Atlantic City Casino Workers Win Strong Tentative Contract.
October 2004
Lack of Paid Sick Leave Compounds Flu Vaccine Disaster
Springsteen, Sweeney, Kick Off Weekend GOTV Push
Ohio Rally Highlights U.S. Voting Rights at Risk
Middle-Class Incomes Decline Since Bush Tax-Giveaway to Wealthy
Corporations Doubled the Number of Jobs Sent Overseas in Three Years
Report Blasts Bush’s Failed Civil Rights Record
Working Families Front and Center in Kerry’s Plan for America
Congress Votes Sixth Time to Protect Overtime Pay
At Town Hall Debate, Kerry Offers Vision of Hope
Bush Promise to Create Jobs Falls Short by Nearly 7 Million
Edwards Charts Vision For Stronger America
Congress Sends Bill to Floor with No Overtime Pay Protections
New AFL-CIO Website Shows How Consumers Pay the Price at Wal-Mart
First Debate Demonstrates Kerry’s Strong Leadership
September 2004
Workers Nationwide Protest Bush’s Overtime Pay Take-Away
Under Bush Social Security Plan, Wall Street Gains, Retirees Lose
Unions Go to Court to Protect Florida Voting Rights
Workers Line Up For Good Jobs in Miami Before Tonight’s Debate
U.S. Corporations That Pay No Taxes Still Get Tax Breaks
Thousands of Hotel Workers Poised to Strike for Health Care
WORKING AMERICA’s Job Tracker Exposes Companies That Export Jobs
Sept. 18: National Run Against Bush Day
Auto Unions Help ‘Green Up’ America
House Votes to Protect Overtime Pay
Unions File Case: China’s Currency Policies Cost U.S. Jobs
Social Security at Risk in a Bush Second Term
America’s Workers Not Better Off than Three Years Ago
Labor Day 2004: Workers Tell Politicians to Support Good Jobs, Affordable Health Care
10 Million U.S. Workers Still Unemployed
AFL-CIO Report: America’s Workers Working Hard but Falling Behind
While Bush Talks, 15,000 Union Members Walk
40,000 Union Activists in NYC Protest Bush Policies
August 2004
U.S. Poverty, Lack of Health Coverage Increase Dramatically
Union Members Come to the Aid of Hurricane Charley Victims
Unions Join with Coalition to Ensure Fair Play for Olympic Sportswear Workers
Workers Protest Nationwide as Bush Takes Away Their Overtime Pay Protections
More than 3,000 America West Workers Choose Teamsters
Charter Schools Trail Public Schools in Student Achievement
Bush Tax Cuts, Trade Deficits Slam Middle Class
Bush Policies Encourage Companies to Send U.S. Jobs Overseas
John Edwards: A Kerry Administration Will Fight for Good Jobs
New Jobs Data Show U.S. Economy Hasn’t Turned a Corner
Bush Attacks Overtime Pay and the 40-Hour Workweek—Again
New Data Show Many Working Families’ Incomes Declining
July 2004
AFL-CIO President Sweeney Tells DNC: Working People Choose John Kerry
Union Delegates at DNC Speak Out on Jobs, Health Care, Freedom to Form Unions
House Leaders Stall Vote to Protect Workers’ Overtime Pay
Bush’s Labor Board Denies Graduate Employees of Rights as Workers
Survey: Soaring Health Care Costs Obliterate Small Salary Increase for Teachers
Union Delegates Take Working Family Issues to Boston
New Reports: Bush Rules Could Cost 6 Million Overtime Pay and Harm Working Families
Clock Ticking for Workers on Bush’s Overtime Pay Take-Away
John Edwards: ‘A Champion for Middle-Class Americans’
Kerry’s Stand in Boston Continues Long Support for Union Members
June 2004
Union-Backed Paid Family Leave Law in Effect July 1
This Fourth of July, Workers Fight for the Freedom to Form Unions
John Kerry Picks Sen. John Edwards as Running Mate
Report: Comcast Drives Down Wages, Bullies Workers
America’s Workers Call for Health Care Reform
Bush’s Labor Board Moves to Restrict Workers’ Rights
Taxpayer Dollars Subsidize Outsourcing Homeland Security Uniforms
82 Million in U.S. Lacked Health Coverage for All or Part of 2002–2003
Record U.S. Trade Deficit Undercuts American Jobs
Thousands of Volunteers Go Door to Door to Educate Union Members
Long Years of Work Yield Lower Earnings for Women Than for Men
United States Cited as Violator of Workers’ Freedom to Form Unions
Global Autoworkers Fight for Their Fair Share
Workers Still Face Long-Term Jobless Crisis
Working Women’s Top Concerns: Jobs and Health Care
May 2004
Bush’s CAFTA Deal a ‘Disaster’ for U.S. and Central American Workers
Worker Safety Is a Casualty of ‘Special Interest Takeover’
Employees Win Tentative Contract at SBC Communications
Report: Taxpayers Foot the Bill for Wal-Mart
Bush Overtime Regulations Threaten Police, Nurses
SBC Workers Strike for Job Security and Health Care
50 Years After Brown v. Board of Education, Report Shows Segregation Increasing
New Legislation Moves Toward SOLVE-ing Immigration Crisis
House Republicans Refuse to Allow Debate or Vote on Overtime Pay Rules
On May 8, Help the Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger
Senate Takes First Step to Block Bush Overtime Pay Take-Away
April 2004
Bush Team Rejection of China Petition Insults Workers
Few Options for Lower Income Working Parents Who Need Family Leave
Workers Memorial Day: Honoring Workers Killed or Injured on the Job
Administration Refuses Workers’ Overtime Pay Guarantee
Bush Takes Away Overtime Pay for Many U.S. Workers
On Equal Pay Day 2004, U.S. Working Women Still Paid Far Less than Men
Report: Policy Changes Could Stop Manufacturing Job Loss
AFL-CIO Executive PayWatch: Chummy Corporate Boards Boost CEO Pay
Los Angeles Schools Take a Stand Against Sweatshop Labor
Jobs Crisis Continues for Working Families
March 2004
Bush Supports New Tax Breaks for Companies that Ship Jobs Overseas
Show Us the Jobs™ Tour Arrives in Washington, D.C.
Bush Takes Next Step in Overtime Pay Grab
America Speaks Out: Show Us the Jobs!
Bush Officials Make Misleading Claims About Health of Social Security, Medicare
Senate Republicans Pull Bill That Would Have Stopped Bush's Overtime Pay Take-Away
Show Us the Jobs™ Tour Visits Jobless Hometowns
Bush–Cheney Election Merchandise: Made in Burma?
Show Us the Jobs™ Tour Hits the Road
When China Represses Workers’ Rights, U.S. Workers Lose Jobs
When China Represses Workers’ Rights, U.S. Workers Lose Jobs
Show Us the Jobs™ Tour Set for Kickoff
Bush Choice for Manufacturing Post Withdraws; Had Shipped U.S. Jobs to China
Show Us the Jobs™ Tour Spotlights Nation’s Jobs Crisis
Down to the Wire: The Fight to Save Overtime Pay
More than 200 Senate and House Members Sign on to Employee Free Choice Act
Workers Hit Hard as Jobs Crisis Continues
FTAA Witness: Miami Police Department Abuse ‘Shouldn’t Happen in America’
California Grocery Workers Settle Contract, Save Health Care
February 2004
Bush Backs Bad Trade Deal
Mushroom Pickers Celebrate Justice at Pictsweet
John Kerry: Working Families’ Choice for President
America@work: What Does the Drive to Low-Wage Jobs Mean for America’s Middle Class?
Bush Policies Leading to State Crises
Safeway Earnings Sink as Workers Gain Nationwide Support
Bush Administration: Ship More U.S. Jobs Overseas
Veterans Among the 700,000 Workers Attacked Under Bush Defense Department Plan
Working Families Face More Bad News About Jobs
Grocery Supporters Tell Wall Street: Safeway CEO Bad for Business
House Passes Jobless Aid—Workers Wait for Senate and Bush Action
Message to Lawmakers: Save Manufacturing and America’s Middle Class
Bush FY 2005 Budget Shortchanges America’s Workers
January 2004
Clear Channel’s Practices Show What’s Wrong with Media Monopolies
Jobless Workers Get No Help from Republican Congressional Leaders
Bush Overtime Plan: A Slap in the Face to America’s Veterans
Report: School Segregation on the Rise
The Real State of the Union: Few Jobs and Tough Times for America’s Workers
Senate Bows to Bush—Workers’ Overtime at Risk
Middle-Class Workers Face Job Crisis
Senate Democrats Protect Workers from Bush’s Attack on Overtime Pay Protections
Unions, Business Back Apollo Plan to Create New Jobs, Energy Independence
Democratic Candidates Support Range of Work-Family Policies
Bush Budget Shortchanges School Children—Again
New Figures Show Nation’s Persistent Jobs Crisis
Bush Immigration Plan ‘Creates a Permanent Underclass of Workers’
Labor Department Advises Employers How to Avoid Paying Overtime
Judge Blocks Bush Administration Rules Creating New Bureaucratic Red Tape for Unions
December 2003
Report: Living Wage Laws Help Workers, Don’t Cost Business
Republican Congress Leaves Jobless Workers in the Cold for the Holidays
Report: NAFTA Fails Workers
Grocery Workers Expand Their Fight for Health Care
Public Hearing Highlights Police Department Mismanagement During FTAA in Miami
Senate Democrats Stand up for Overtime Protections, Block Bush Spending Bill
On Human Rights Day, Tens of Thousands Call for Workers’ Freedom to Form Unions
California Grocery Workers Hold the Line as Workers in Three States Ratify Contract
Central American Trade Deal: More Job Loss for Workers
Unemployment Remains Essentially Unchanged in ‘Wal-Mart’ Economy
House Leaders Ignore Workers’ Pleas to Save Overtime—Fight Moves to Senate
Tens of Thousands Mark Dec. 10 to Support Workers’ Freedom to Form Unions
Steel Tariff Decision: ‘A Betrayal of Workers’
AFL-CIO Calls for Investigation of Police Abuse at FTAA March
Pay Gap Between Women and Men: Same as in 1983
November 2003
Take the Sweat(shop) Out of Holiday Shopping
Senate Approves ‘First Step Toward Dismantling Medicare’
Kennedy, Miller Introduce Employee Free Choice Act in Congress
Bush Succeeds in Stopping Congress from Protecting Overtime Pay
U.S. House Leader DeLay: No Reason to Extend Unemployment Insurance to Long-Term Jobless
20,000 March to Stop FTAA
Employee Free Choice Act: Restoring Workers’ Freedom to Form Unions
Republican Lawmakers Seek Delay in New Union Reporting Rules
Stop FTAA: Steelworkers Launch First Day of Miami Actions
America@work: ‘Selling Out the Nation’s Workers’
Stop FTAA: Activists Head to Miami
EPI Report: U.S. Workers Lost Nearly 900,000 Jobs Under NAFTA
Working Families: Mobilized for Miami to Stop FTAA
New Report Shows Economic Fault Lines Ripping States
Extremist Bush Court Pick Wins Committee Vote
Drug Companies Would Get $139 Billion Under Medicare Plan in Congress
October 2003
Striking Workers Hold the Line on Health Care
Union Members Mobilize for Dec. 10, International Human Rights Day
Retirees Step up Fight to Stop a Bad Medicare Drug Bill
AFT’s Campus Equity Week Highlights Growth of Academic Sweatshops
Steelworkers, UAW Sue Bush’s OSHA
Is Wal-Mart Setting the (Low) Standard for Employer Health Coverage?
Medicare Bills Now in Congress Would Make Seniors Pay More
For Striking Workers, the Bottom Line Is Health Care
Working Families Tell Bush: ‘End Your Attack on Overtime!’
Young Women Risk Their Lives to Work in Mexico’s Maquilas
9 Million Still Officially Jobless—More Like 15.5 Million
House Says ‘No’ to Bush Overtime Pay Attack
Immigrant Workers Freedom Riders Celebrate in New York
September 2003
More Americans Living in Poverty Today than in the 1990s
Oct. 1 House Vote: One More Chance to Save Overtime Pay
Remy Halaby: On the Road for Freedom
Wanted: Solid Steps to Mend Manufacturing
California Bill Would Bring Health Coverage to More Than 1 Million
America@work: What Happens to Workers when White-Collar Jobs Go Overseas?
UAW, Big Three Reach Tentative Agreements
Overtime Battle Moves Back to House
8,000 Activists Turn Out to Support Yale Employees
Breakdown in WTO Talks Shows Need for New Trade Rules
Mass Mobilization Set Sept. 13 to Support Yale Employees
Latino Union Leaders Building Political Strength
Senate to Bush: ‘Don’t Mess with Overtime’
Another 93,000 Jobs Disappeared in August
Bush Vows Veto if Senate Protects Overtime Pay
Tentative Agreement Reached at Verizon
Look for the Union Label
August 2003
Nation’s Air Traffic Control System for Sale Under Bush Plan
Survey: Public Opposes Bush Efforts to Gut Overtime Laws 3-1
This Labor Day, Workers Call for Freedom to Join Unions
U.S. Workers Struggle in Worst Job Slump Since Great Depression
New Reports: Unions Benefit Union and Nonunion Workers, Professionals Flock to Unions
Wal-Mart: ‘How May We Muzzle You?’
Study: Union Construction Workers More Productive than Nonunion
Nobel Prize Winner Calls Bush Economic Policies ‘Worst in 200 Years’
Verizon Workers Fighting to Save Jobs
Democratic Presidential Candidates Criticize Bush, Vow Support for Jobs, Health Care and Workers’ Freedom to Form a Union
Family and Medical Leave Act Turns 10
Democratic Presidential Candidates Pledge to Tackle Working Family Issues
July 2003
Bush Move to Strip Overtime Draws More Fire
Presidential Candidates to Discuss Working Family Issues at Tonight’s AFL-CIO Forum
Bush Uses Medicare Bill to Attack Workers’ Rights
Midwest Workers: ‘Read Bush’s Lips—No New Jobs’
Presidential Candidates Hear About Employer War Against Workers Seeking Unions
Act Now to Save Affordable Electricity
Fight to Save Overtime Pay Moves to Senate
House-Passed Trade Deal Bad for U.S. Workers
Bush-Backed Energy Bill Could Freeze Out Consumers
White House to Public: Don’t Contact Us
House Set to Vote on the FCC’s Media Monopoly
Teamsters, Laborers and Asbestos Workers Unions Celebrate 100th Anniversaries
Union Summer: Connecting Students with Workers
Senate Considers Bill to Protect Overtime Pay
Activists Urge Bush to Fund AIDS Initiative
Pride At Work: One Positive Move Doesn’t Make Wal-Mart a Good Employer
Bush Court Nominee William Pryor: Outside the American Mainstream
Killed Mine Workers Honored on Anniversary of Coal Mine Safety Act
Injured at Work? New Bush Rules Say Some Injuries Don’t Count
UNITE and Teamsters Join Together Cintas Workers’ Struggle for Job Fairness
Jobless Rate Rises Again: 15.3 Million Unemployed and Underemployed with 6.4 Percent Officially Out of Work
Tens of Thousands of Workers Protest Bush Overtime Proposal
SAG and AFTRA Consolidation Fails on Close Vote
June 2003
Poll: Teachers Say Unions Are Crucial Defenders of Their Rights
Denied Room by Labor Department, Workers Rally on Sidewalk to Protect Overtime
8 Million White-Collar Workers Could Lose Overtime Pay Under Bush Plan
Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action
Half-Trillion Dollar Trade Deficit Fuels Joblessness
Wal-Mart Ordered to Recognize and Bargain with UFCW
Workers Would Face More Safety Hazards Under Bill to Weaken OSHA
250 Million Children Work to Survive
Trickle Down: Privatizing Federal Jobs Will Erode Communities
Top of the Pops—Building and Construction Trades’ DAD’s Day Fights Diabetes
15 Million Unemployed and Underemployed as Jobless Rate Rises Again
Working Families Win Round One in Fight to Save Overtime Pay
Bush Economics Bad News for African Americans
FCC Clears Way for Media Monopolies
May 2003
11.9 Million Children Empty-Handed in Bush’s Millionaire Tax Cut
Workers Could Face More Work at Less Pay Under House Bill
Supreme Court Backs State Workers' Family Leave Rights
Health Workers, Patients Face TB Risk Under Bush Action
Congress Ignores 1.1 Million Unemployed Workers
Bush Policies 'Hit' Women Hard
Millionaires Win Under Tax Bill Passed by Congress
Think Most TV, Radio and Newspapers Sound the Same? It Could Get Worse
Nation Honors Maritime Heroes
Religious Leaders Join Cintas Workers' Fight for Justice
Union Members Working to Help Tornado Victims
Senate Passes Bush Tax Scheme—Cheney Casts Deciding Vote
Well-Paying Jobs or Tax Cuts for Millionaires? America's Choices
Jobless Workers Rally at Capitol
Kuhl Court Nomination at a Critical Point
Nurses Launch Campaign for Safe Staffing
¡Sí, Se Puede!
Letter Carriers Make It Easy to Donate Food
"The Big Fix": New Book Reveals Why We Can't Afford Prescription Drugs
8.8 Million Now Officially Jobless—More Like 15 Million
Amtrak Workers' Wages Stuck at the Station
April 2003
Nurse Staffing: Curing the Crisis
May Day 2003: Workers Celebrate Victories, Call for Action
AFSCME Demands OSHA Act on Tuberculosis Standard
UFCW and Other Unions Call on OSHA to Issue Long Overdue Employer Payment for Personal Protective Equipment Standard
Bush Court-Packing Drive Picks Up Steam
Front-Line Workers Seek Protection from SARS
Locked-Out Peterbilt Workers Take Message to Shareholders
Workers Memorial Day Honors the Fallen, Looks Ahead
Front-Line Workers and Their Unions Win Compensation for Smallpox Vaccine Victims
Corporations Cost Taxpayers Billions by Reincorporating Overseas
Equal Pay Day, April 15: Taxing Time
Executive PayWatch: CEO Pay Rises While Workers Lose Jobs
Aid for Laid-Off Airline Workers Wins Congressional Approval
Bad Economy—No Time to Desert the Unemployed
Manufacturing Crisis Needs Action Now
Nation Needs Jobs—Building and Construction Trades Department Workers Tell Congress
New Pension Proposal Could Cost Workers’ Retirement Security
More Jobs Lost in March—Bush, Congress Offer No Real Solutions
Journalist Sees Soldiers' Humanity on Kuwait-Iraq Border
Congressional Republicans Join Bush Administration in Move to Slash Overtime Pay
Student Activists Rally for Justice
March 2003
Students Launch Week of Action Honoring César Chávez, Martin Luther King Jr.
Workers Benefit with the Power of Pension Funds
Bush Proposal Could End Overtime Pay for Millions of Workers
Union Members Risk Their Lives to Serve Their Country
New Hampshire Working Families Send Out-of-State 'Right to Work' Backers Packing
Union Movement Supports U.S. Troops, Hopes for Peace
Communities Protest House Budget Cuts to Education, Health Care and More
Social Security and Medicare—or Tax Cuts for the Wealthy?
OSHA's Nursing Home Safety Guidelines No Substitute for Real Worker Protection
Mass Layoff Tracking Restored After Public Outcry
Solidarity Pays Off in Broadway Strike
Number of Americans Without Health Insurance Higher than Thought
Nation’s Unemployment Pain Worsens, Cutoff Looms for Jobless Workers
Bush Judicial Nominee's Evasive Testimony and White House Failure to Provide Documents Leads to Democratic Filibuster
Solidarity Strong as Yale Strike Ends
Union Movement Says Media Monopolies Threaten Democracy
Bush Loses Estrada Vote, Quest for Answers on Nominee's Legal Beliefs Continues
Union Health and Safety Activists Learn How to Mobilize Workers Around Health and Safety Issues
Seafarers’ Member Bob Joyce Sets Sail on the Cape Wrath
NATCA Member Forest Keener Refuels Jets in Saudi Arabia
Fire Fighter Michelle Chandler Ready for the Call
Clarissa Demery Loads Military Cargo Ships, Prays for Her Son
February 2003
Economic Downturn Reverberates in Union Membership, but Despite Recession, Half a Million Workers Formed Unions in 2002
Trade Deficit Hits Record High in 2002
World Bank: Unions Are Good for the Economy
Bush Tax Restructuring Scheme Would Destroy 750,000 Jobs
Congressional Inaction Puts Steel Company Retirees at Risk
AFL-CIO to File Amicus Brief in Support of University of Michigan Affirmative Action Admissions Policies
Republican Leader DeLay's Attacks on Unions' Patriotism Called 'Vile' and 'Despicable'
Industrial Union Members Take Message to Capitol Hill
Latino Labor Leaders Oppose Bush 'Stealth Candidate' to Court
January 2003
Brylane Workers Win a Union Voice at Work
Bush Calls for Another Tax Cut for the Wealthy, While Republican Congress Prepares More Attacks on Workers and Unions
New Report: Bush Economic Performance Failing
States Face Huge Fiscal Crisis, but Bush Tax Restructuring Plan Only Worsens Budget Shortfalls
'Made in China' Label a Problem? Just Cover It Up
Mutual Fund Shareholders Win with SEC Vote
ILWU Members Ratify Historic Contract
Union Members Remember King Through Action
General Electric Workers Strike for Health Coverage
Union Organizers Swap Strategies for Strength at Organizing Summit
Dean, Burton Win 'Wellstone Awards' for Supporting Workers' Organizing Efforts
Analysis Shows Bush Economic Scheme Full of Giveaways, Low on Stimulus
Bush Administration Strips Airport Screeners of Collective Bargaining Rights
Bush Reignites Lott Controversy: Renominates Pickering and Other Ultra-Conservatives to the Federal Courts
House and Senate Pass Unemployment Benefit Extension, But 1 Million Jobless Workers Left Out
AFL-CIO Releases Agenda to Create Jobs and Lift the Economy
December 2002
Hundreds of Thousands Lose Jobless Benefits
Activists to Honor the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Laid-off WorldCom Engineer Doesn't Know How He Will Support His Family
Brazil’s President-Elect and Trade Union Leader 'Lula' Visits AFL-CIO
OSHA Reaches Out to Industry Groups but Shuts Workers, Unions Out of Most Safety and Ergonomics Activities
Investors Urge Fidelity to Come Clean
November 2002
Tentative Agreement Reached for West Coast Dockworkers
Working Families to Wal-Mart: Respect Workers, Respect Communities
House Republicans, Bush Leave Unemployed in the Lurch
Showdown: Will Bush Defy Congress and Take Away Workers’ Overtime?
Senate Passes ‘Shameful’ Homeland Security Bill
‘Don’t Buy Me Gap’ Campaign Fights Sweatshops
Congress Leaving Workers Behind in Homeland Security Legislation
Election Poll: Union Members Voted
Working Families Mobilized in 2002 Elections
Union Members Working Hard to Get Out the Vote
October 2002
Day of Action to Focus on Wal-Mart
Getting Out the Union Vote Member-to-Member
Dockworkers Moving Cargo Through Snarled Ports After Taft-Hartley Injunction
Working Families Tell Candidates, 'No More Business As Usual'
Rally for Immigrant Workers Says, 'Reward Work!'
Bush Secures Taft-Hartley Court Order in Lockout
White House Takes Unprecedented Action in Dockworkers Lockout
Judge Rules WorldCom Workers Will Get Full Severance and Other Benefits
Golden State Farm Workers Win Historic Mediation Bill
Workers Speak Out on Global Economy, Corporate Greed
September 2002
Workers Hand CEOs 'Pink Slips,' Call for Corporate Accountability
Republicans Block Homeland Security Vote in Senate
New Stamp Honors César Chávez
Ex-WorldCom Workers Ask Court to Be Fair
Poll shows support for workplace protections for Homeland Security employees
17,000 at Trucking Company Laid Off on Labor Day
Alliance for Retired Americans Demands Prescription Drug Benefit Now
Under pressure from laid-off workers, WorldCom moves to pay fairer severance to some former employees
Bush Ratchets Up Homeland Security Veto Threat
Celebrating Labor Day, New York Remembers Heroes of Sept. 11
Labor Day Celebrations Salute Everyday Working Heroes
Union Members, Other Worshippers Celebrate Labor in the Pulpits
August 2002
New Poll: Americans Skeptical of Corporations, Looking to Unions to Balance Corporate Power
Bush Veto Threatens Health Monitoring for WTC Site Workers
Bush's Economic Forum 'Pep Rally' Offers Little
Congress Faces Major Work After Recess
Troops as Strikebreakers? Bush Administration Considers 'Options' in West Coast Dock Talks
Stanley Works Surrenders - Cancels Reincorporation to Bermuda Under Pressure
July 2002
Activists Tell Fidelity Investments to Disclose Shareholder Votes
No More Business As Usual
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney Demands Corporate Reform, Announces Action Plan
Corporate Accountability Rally in Connecticut Tells Stanley Works to 'Invest at Home'
Bush Arm Twisting Squeezes Out Narrow House Fast Track Win
Congress Takes First Step in Corporate Accountability Reform
Fast Track Sneak Attack: House/Senate Conference Tries to Rush Bill to Floor
House and Senate Agree on Corporate Accountability Reform
Advertising and Marketing Eat Biggest Chunk of Prescription Drug Firms' Revenue
Senate Votes for New Corporate Accountability Rules; Bush and House Republicans Look to Weaken Legislation
NAACP Joins Opposition to Fast Track
Activists Wrap Up Voice@Work Month With Foundations for Ever-Stronger Coalition
Longshore Workers Fighting for Livelihood
Senate Corporate Accountability Bill Gains Steam
WorldCom Worker on Bush: 'I Can't Take Him Seriously'
Bush Plan to Privatize Social Security Would Cut Benefits-And More
June 2002
President Bush and Congress Must Act Now to Keep Amtrak Rolling
Senate Republicans Block Hate Crime Bill
Millions of World's Children at Work, Not in School
Timeline of Labor Movement Actions Responding to the Enron Collapse
Judge Approves Fairer Severance for Laid-Off Enron Workers
Fairness Sought for Arthur Andersen Employees
May 2002
Union Workers' Tireless Efforts Help Bring World Trade Center 'Ground Zero' Cleanup to a Close
Seniors Buy Drugs, Save Money on Cross-Border 'Rx Express'
Fast Track Wins, Workers Lose with Senate Trade Vote
General Board of the AFL-CIO Approves Union Member Political Education and Mobilization
Senate Hands Bush Fast Track Setback
Gap Workers Experience Pattern of Abuse in Factory
Steelworkers' Retiree Health Care Help Denied in Fast Track Vote
New Report: Working Mothers Work Longer Hours
Welfare-to-Work Isn't Working
Msgr. George Higgins - Biographical Sketch
Monsignor George Higgins: An Appreciation
Monsignor George Higgins: Biography
April 2002
Injured Workers Tell Bush Administration a New Worker Safety Standard Is Needed Now
Sept. 11 Victims Are Focus of Workers Memorial Day 2002 in New York City
The AFL-CIO and Worker Rights in Venezuela
Death on the Job Examines Workplace Deaths, Injuries and Illnesses
Jobs, Workers - Rights at Stake in Fast Track Debate
Unions, Environmental, Religious Groups Call for World Bank Reforms
Senate Bill Aims to Right Bush - Job Safety Wrongs
Demanding Paycheck Fairness on Equal Pay Day
Bush Worker Safety 'Plan' Fails to Protect Workers
Working Families Say, - No More Business as Usual
FieldsofHope.org Highlights Child Labor in Agriculture
March 2002
Social Security Still Healthy, Report Shows
A Year - Toll: 1.8 Million Hurt Since Bush Repealed Ergonomics Rule
Union Members Give Generously to Help Sept. 11 Victims
Bad Marks: 23 States Get 'F' on New Unemployment Insurance Report Card
Senate Passes Economic Stimulus Legislation Without Health Care Assistance
February 2002
Linda Chavez Revealed
Enron Campaign Advances With Win in Fight for Fair Severance Pay
Union Movement Launches 'No More Enrons' Campaign
Global Unions Join in a Day of Action
Senate Kills Working Family Stimulus Plan But Passes Unemployment Extension
Inside Bush Budget - Hidden Hits and Hidden Costs
Bush Budget and Health Care
The Bush Social Security Agenda: Privatizing the Nation's Premier Retirement and Family Security Program
Bush Budget and Education
The Bush Proposal to Devolve Unemployment Insurance Administration to the States
Cuts That Hurt: The Bush FY 2003 Budget For Workers and Their Families
Bush Budget Fails Working Families
Highways, Transit, Amtrak and Air Traffic Privatization And the Bush Budget for 2003
January 2002
Former Enron Workers Bring Call for Investigation to Washington, D.C.
Projected Budget Deficit Tied to Bush's Millionaire Tax Cut
Worker Relief Blocked - Again
Unfinished Business-Including Worker Relief-Faces Congress as It Returns
Bush Bypasses Senate Scrunity for NLRB Nominees
Working Families to Host Meetings Outside World Economic Forum in New York City
Bush Bypasses Congress to Appoint Scalia Labor's Top Lawyer
Union Membership Stable in 2001, Despite a Year of Uncertainty
December 2001
Electrical Workers Tell Senate Enron's Collapse Wiped Out Retirement Savings
Bush Moves to Deny United Mechanics Their Right to Bargain Collectively
Steelworkers Pitch Tent City for Justice
Fast Track Squeaks Through House  
November 2001
Workers at a Mexican Maquiladora, a Nike Supplier of College Sweatshirts, Gain a Voice at Work
Workers' Rights Ignored as World Trade Organization Sets Agenda
AFL-CIO Conferences, Convention Set for December in Las Vegas 
Senate Republicans' Maneuver Kills Economic Stimulus Bill Aimed at Working Families
Senate Bill Puts Working Families First
Freedom Here for Charleston 5
Senate Says 'No' to Rights for Firefighters, Police Officers, EMTs
Working Families Unite for Global Justice While WTO Meets
Working Families Make the Difference in Gubernatorial Elections
Official Jobless Numbers Skyrocket, But Help for Workers is Slow
October 2001
Working Families to Senate: 'Pass Real Worker Relief in Economic Stimulus, Not Corporate Handouts'
Unions Respond to Inhospitable Times for Hospitality Workers
Thousands of Postal Workers are Affected as Anthrax Exposure Increases
House-Passed Stimulus Bill is a Windfall for Corporations but a Pittance for Workers
Working Families Come First in New AFL-CIO Blueprint to Reverse Economic Impact of Sept. 11 and Pre-Attack Downturn
Charleston 5-One Step Closer to Justice
Bush Stimulus Plan Puts Tax Breaks Above Worker Help
More and Faster Tax Cuts NOT the Road to Economic Recovery or Putting America Back to Work
Fast Track's Back - Votes Expected Soon - Call Congress Now and Say 'No' to Fast Track
Bush Worker-Relief Proposal Falls Short of Need
After Airline Bailout, It's Time to Help the More Than 100,000 - and Counting - Jobless Aviation Workers 
September 2001
Union Rescuers and Miners Killed in Coal Mine Explosions
Singing and Demonstrating for Global Economic Justice
Sept. 11: The Union Movement Responds
Global Justice Week of Action Canceled
Workers' Stories of Abuse, Exploitation Point to Need for Immigration Reform
August 2001
Prayers, Parades and Picnics Mark Labor Day 2001
Flight Attendants Tell Delta, 'It's Union For Us'
Bush's Incredible, Shrinking Budget Surplus and Millionaire Tax Cut Threaten Social Security
Trouble in River City: Nonunion 'The Music Man' Earns Equity Boycott
New International Anti-Sweatshop Coalition is a Global Response to a Global Problem
Judge Rules for Workers - and Against Bush - in Project Labor Agreement Case
Fight for the Rights of Immigrants Heats Up
Vieques Voters Tell Navy to 'Stop the Bombing - Now!'
Chicken Catchers and Tyson Foods Reach Suit Settlement
AFL-CIO and Michigan State to Host Workers' Rights Conference - Papers and Proposals Sought
Poverty Line is Far Below Families' Basic Needs, New Study Reveals
July 2001
Demonstrators Tell Cheney and the Chamber, 'Fast Track is the Wrong Track!'
New Poll Says Workers Don't Trust Bush Administration to Protect their Rights
Demonstrators Slam Bush Social Security Commission
Thousands March for an End to Navy Bombings in Vieques
Bush Panel Unleashes Social Security Scare Tactics - Laying Groundwork for Huge Benefit Cuts
Avondale's Price for Union-Busting: $5.4 Million-Plus
Pain and Blame for Injured Workers Rests with Bush, Chao and Big Business
Working Families Mobilize to Stop Fast Track
Transit Workers Union Negotiates Family-Friendly Benefits
June 2001
United American Nurses, a 100,000-Member Union, Votes to Affiliate with the AFL-CIO
South Korean Unions Fight for Justice at Home
Big Business, Republican Senator Raise Cash for 'Right to Work For Less'
Verizon Workers Tell Company to Keep its Word
Coalition Denounces House 'Fast Track' Bill
Bush's Social Security Scheme Challenged by Coalition
Thousands Rally for South Carolina Dockers
Bush Signs Millionaire Tax Cut Bill - 34 Million Taxpayers to Get Zilch in Rebates
People of Faith Urge Wage and Hour Protection for Poultry Workers
Workers Nationwide Mobilize for South Carolina Dockers
May 2001
Wealthy Win Tax Break with Congressional Approval of Bush Millionaire Tax Cut
Senate Takes Another Step to Cut Taxes for the Wealthy
Fighting Forced Labor in Burma, Shareholders Take Oil Giants to Task
Alliance for Retired Americans Kicks Off National Campaign for Prescription Drug Benefit Under Medicare
President Bush and Sen. Clinton on working women's 'Hit and Ms.' List
Terror War on Colombia's Unions Claims More Lives
Forum Addresses Child Labor - Around the World and at Home
Bush's Budget Wins Narrow House and Senate Approval
Victorious Harvard Students
Bush's Millionaire Tax Cut Scaled Back Slightly
Bush Appoints Commission to Privatize Social Security
April 2001
Shareholders Try to Slow Sprint's Race to Big Executive Payoffs
Words Without Substance: Bush on FTAA Workers' Rights and the Environment
Above and Below the Border, Working Families March for Fair Trade and Against FTAA
After NAFTA, FTAA Could Bring More Disaster
Working Families, Global Unions Rally for Fair Trade
Bush Millionaire Tax Cut Spurs Working Families to 'Tax'n Action'
Kids or Millionaires? Bush Makes a Budget Choice - And It's Not the Kids
University of New Mexico Workers Win a Voice@Work
Construction Unions Win Project Labor Agreement Concessions from Bush Administration
Millionaire Tax Cut is the Heart of Bush's Budget
Senate Deals Setback for Bush Tax Cut
Temple University Graduate Employees Win a Voice at Work with Help From Community, Elected Leaders
Fair Pay Act-Rallies Mark Equal Pay Day
March 2001
Comair Pilots-Safely Shepherding 50 Souls, an Enormous Responsibility at $15,000 a Year
What a Deal for CEOs-Poor Performance Equals Big Raises!
Senate Rejects Attempt to Silence Working Families
Unions Come Together to Support Basic Rights for Basic Vegetable/ConAgra Workers
Election Reform Bill Would Ensure Every Vote is Counted
What do Working Women Want? The 2001 Ask a Working Woman Survey Will Find Out
House Republicans Push Bush's Tax Cut for the Wealthy
House, Senate Votes Condemn Ergonomics Rule; Bush Will Sign Death Warrant
Nike Just Won't Do It
Ergonomics, Tax-Cut-for-the-Wealthy Votes Coming this Week
February 2001
Stop the Pain! Working Families Mobilize to Protect the Ergonomics Standard
Bush Has it Backward on Budget Priorities
AFL-CIO Executive Council Focuses on Organizing, Taxes and Immigration
Bush Issues Anti-Worker Executive Orders
In Los Angeles, Union Members and Leaders Say, "Respect Work, Strengthen Family"
Patients' Bill of Rights and Minimum Wage Hike Will Test Bush's Pledge for Bipartisanship on Capitol Hill
'Secret Assault' by Bush Administration Blocks the Federal Government's Responsible Contractor Rule
Gearing Up for a 'New Internationalism,' Working Families Map Out Busy Spring
January 2001
Working Family Issues are Focus of Debate as Bush Administration and Congress Begin Work
Crown Lockout Ends
Coalition of Conscience Marked Inauguration Day with Florida March and Rally
Certech Workers UNITE by Winning Community Support
Ashcroft Confirmed, Working Families to Remain Vigilant
Senate Hearings Begin with Lines Drawn on Important Working Family Issues
AFT Organizing in California Harnesses New Technology
Bush Taps Chao for Secretary of Labor
Civil Rights Groups File Federal Suit Alleging Voting Irregularities in Florida
Chavez Quits as Labor Secretary Nominee as AFL-CIO Executive Council Calls for Her Withdrawal and Senate Rejection of Ashcroft and Norton
Under New Rules, Corporate Lawbreakers Seeking Government Contracts Beware
New Census Numbers Show State Gains and Losses in U.S. House
December 2000
L.A. Students Buying Certifiably Sweat-Free, Union-Made T-Shirts
Republicans Block Economic Stimulus Package With Insistence on Corporate Tax Windfalls
Charity Begins at Home. Contribute to the Union Community Fund
Reporter Speaks Out on Seattle Newspaper Strike
Internet Workers Seek a Fair Deal With the Help of a Union
Sacramento's 9,300 Home Care Workers Win Seven-Year Fight to Form a Union
November 2000
U.S. Supreme Court Blocks Florida Vote Count
California Workers Put Their Money Where Their Values Are
Union Wins Family Service and Learning Centers to Meet Needs of Working Families
NYU Grad Assistants Choose a Voice with UAW
Unions Represent and Fight for People with Disabilities
'Trade Off': New Film Marks Anniversary of WTO Protests in Seattle
10-Year Fight Yields New Ergonomics Standard That Will Prevent Millions of Worker Injuries
Florida Union Members, Retirees Report Voting Problems
For First Time in 40 Years, Colorado Working Families Win State Senate Edge
The Union Difference: 26 Percent of Voters Are from Union Households
State Legislatures Up For Grabs in Election
Striking Actors Reach Agreement with Ad Industry, Ending Boycott
Important Working Family Issues Ignored as Congressional Leaders Wait for Lame-Duck Session
Working Families and Their Unions Stage Biggest Get-Out-The-Vote Drive Ever
In Michigan, Working Families Can Make a Difference in U.S. Senate Race
October 2000
Surprise! Congressional Leaders' Tax Bill Favors Business Over Working Families
National Leafleting Day Nov. 6
Election Day Difference - New Working Family Voters!!
Labor Ready Annual Meeting and Worker Rally for Better Treatment
Aviation Workers Make a Safe Landing With Their Union
Colorado Working Families Stand Up to Corporate Agenda in Election
Bolivian Union Leader Honored with Human Rights Award
Hill Rally Calls for Minimum-Wage Increase
People-Powered Bus Tour Starts in Appalachia
Unions Counter Special-Interest Money This Election Year
Nothing 'Fuzzy' Here-Nobel Prize Winners Say Bush's Numbers Don't Add Up
Serbian Workers and Their Unions Fight for Freedom
Al Gore Champions Working Families in First Presidential Debate
D.C. Nurses Begin Hunger Strike with AFL-CIO Support to Protest Hospital's Use of Strikebreakers
What a Duo! Billy Bragg and the AFL-CIO Team Up for Global Justice
Republican Leaders Doom Medicare Prescription Drug Bill Chances
September 2000
Workers' Rights Threatened in GOP Leaders' Minimum-Wage Proposal
Tell Congress to Pass a Minimum-Wage Increase Now!
Vigil Remembers Slain CWA Member and Demands Strong Hate Crimes Law
Unions, Kaiser Permanente Agree on Greater Voice at Work
Tipper Gore Hears Concerns of Working Women
Settlement at Earthgrains Makes Dough Rise
Minimum-Wage Hike Held Hostage to Tax Breaks, Overtime Rollbacks
Senate Ignores China's Human Rights Abuses and Votes for Permanent Trade Rights
Ergonomics Standard in the Hands of Congress
Workers' Rights Advocates Murdered, Beaten and Arrested, ICFTU Study Reveals
With Adjournment in Sight, Working Family Issues Top Congress' Agenda
Union Members Speak at Faith Gatherings over Labor Day Weekend
Today's Unions Celebrate Labor Day Across America
Today's Unions Celebrate Labor Day Across America
August 2000
NLRB Says Temp Workers Can Have a Voice at Work
Human Rights Watch Report Concludes that U.S. Labor Laws Fail Workers
 
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