Tag: AFL-CIO
AFL-CIO report warns digital shelf labels could cost retail workers billions...
Maryland and New Jersey have already moved to restrict the technology, betting its pricing infrastructure poses as much risk to shoppers as to store staff.
New union disclosure rule takes effect after AFL-CIO loses first court...
A federal judge declined to pause expanded Labor Department reporting requirements that unions say will bury them in paperwork and divert money from organizing and bargaining.
House vote moves to undo Trump orders stripping union rights from...
A bipartisan majority backed the Protect America’s Workforce Act to reverse what labor leaders call the “single-largest act of union busting in American history,” restoring collective bargaining protections for nearly 1 million federal employees.
May Day uprising: Americans unite to resist Trump’s war on workers...
With over 1,100 rallies planned across the country, May Day protesters call out Trump’s billionaire allies, labor rollbacks, and attacks on immigrants in what may become the largest workers’ demonstration in U.S. history.
“He’s opposed every increase in the minimum wage”: AFL-CIO chief rips...
"They've done more things to hurt workers than they have to help them," Richard Trumka said of the Trump administration.
AFL-CIO Choosing Profit Over the Planet
When it comes to planetary survival, the answer from the top of the AFL-CIO (The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations) hierarchy remains: We’re on the wrong side.
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EPA finalizes repeal of power plant carbon standards as environmental groups sue
The sector accounts for nearly one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and the agency separately proposed ending its authority to regulate them.
Democratic attorneys general say Education Department is hiding 1,300 documents on its layoffs
A privilege log lists nearly 1,300 records the agency says are too sensitive to hand over.
7,000 Chicago hotel workers vote to authorize strike
A union survey found a third of members cannot cover rent or mortgage payments, and the last hotel strike in the city, in 2018, lasted about a month.
Vance-led task force moves to strip 760,000 people of ACA coverage
Advocates say the crackdown follows 8 million coverage losses already tied to Trump-era health cuts.
Federal judge blocks deportation of man shot by ICE during Austin delivery run
DHS and the man's attorney give conflicting accounts of the medical care he has received since.