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The Triangle Fire: Still Burning Before Our Nation
The Triangle factory after the March 25, 1911, fire.We hope you will share this special AFL-CIO Now feature on the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire with your friends, family and...
View Article2011 PayWatch: Average CEO Salary--$11.4 Million
While 25 million unemployed and underemployed U.S. workers are drowning, CEO pay skyrocketed by 23 percent, for an average salary of $11.4 million in 2010, according to the AFL-CIO Executive PayWatch....
View ArticleApple Computer Hoards Cash, Makes Products in Abusive Conditions
Adele Stan, journalist and labor union member, wrote this for us at the AFL-CIO Now blog, which shows the worm inside the Apple.Go to any gathering, and you'll find nearly every person carrying an...
View ArticlePhilip Levine: Reflecting the Poet's Vision of Working in America
When the nation’s Poet Laureate, Philip Levine, gives a reading of his work tomorrow here at the AFL-CIO, he will recite poems that weave a lyrical web of words around his visceral understanding of the...
View ArticleIAM's Guide Dogs of America Changes Lives
Guide Dogs of America changes lives—thanks to the Machinists (IAM) union and, of course, some dedicated best friends.As student Michael Moore says after taking part in the Guide Dog program: It’s been...
View ArticleWhat's Your Favorite Made in America Items?
Over at the AFL-CIO Now blog, we asked readers their favorite Made in America items--and dozens and dozens responded. Topping the list of favorites? Slugger baseball bats, Miller beer and anything...
View ArticleEconomic Prosperity Won't Happen Without Collective Bargaining
How would you like a 100 percent boost in wages?If you’re in the top 1/1000th of the U.S. income earners, you already got one. Since 1980, a household making $1.5 million in 2010 has received a pay...
View ArticleVoter Fraud Scare Is A Fraud
Yet another study shows that supposed rampant “voter fraud” is nearly nonexistent. WaPo reports on a study today that finds one voter fraud case for every 16 million prospective voters.An analysis of...
View ArticleCrystal Sugar Workers Locked Out for 1 Year
Michael Frank headed over to a rally in East Grand Forks, Minn., last night, one of many he’s taken part in over the past year. Frank, along with 1,300 other workers, was locked out of the American...
View ArticleAna Hernandez--Martin Sheen Think You're Pretty Cool
Ann Hernandez gets up at 4:30 a.m. every day to deliver the Los Angeles Times newspaper to Martin Sheen's neighborhood...and he thinks that's pretty cool. Hernandez works 365 days a year, ”even...
View ArticleViolence Rises against Bangladeshi Garment Workers
The murder earlier this year of a Bangladeshi union organizer is part of an escalation of attacks on the nation’s 4 million garment workers who seek to change abusive working conditions, says Kalpona...
View ArticleNicaragua the Third Nation to Adopt Domestic Work Standard
Nicaragua this week became the third country to ratify the International Labor Organization (ILO) convention on domestic workers. An ILO “convention” sets international labor standards, and the “Decent...
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