The Episcopal Church has added its support to the growing movement for the Employee Free Choice Act. At the 76th General Convention of the Episcopal Church, held July 8-17, bishops and deputies approved a resolution asking Congress and the president...

In Arkansas and other key states, union members are rallying to demand that their senators support real health care reform.   Senators are heading home for Thanksgiving this week, but when they return, they’ll begin debate on one of the most...

In a big victory last week, more than 1,000 graduate students at the University of Illinois exercised their freedom to bargain and won a contract that includes what all workers deserve: fair wages and better working conditions. Unfortunately, too many...

When 14 Colombian trade union members were in the United States for a training program, they were unable to forget just how dangerous it is to support unions in their home country. During the two months they were here, four of their colleagues were...

    Liz McElroy of the Philadelphia Council of the AFL-CIO, Dan Heck of Working America and Scott Reynolds of the AFL-CIO staff meet with a group of worker activists from the Egyptian Center for Trade Union and Worker Services in...

       With Saturday’s successful Senate procedural vote behind us, the stage is set for a debate on health care reform after Thanksgiving. Getting this far—putting a comprehensive health care reform bill on the Senate floor—has never...