Anishya Sanders and Kenny Tucker didn’t clock in today, but they did put time in with their legislators on Capitol Hill. The Laborer and Teamster shared their experiences with members of Congress to show how the Employee Free Choice...
In my last post, I said I would follow up with suggestions on how you can take action to help more workers have a voice in their workplace. Here they are: CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE: All week, join with workers...
The Worker Rights Consortium turned up the heat on Wal-Mart yesterday with a new report that confirms what we already knew about the company: Wal-Mart buys its clothes from third world sweatshops that abuse worker rights. Among other labor...
If you follow labor issues at all -- and since you're reading this blog, that's probably a safe bet -- you've probably been hearing a lot of buzz lately about the Employee Free Choice Act, or "EFCA" for short. We're...
Harley Shaiken, a professor specializing in labor and the global economy at UC Berkeley, wrote an op-ed in Saturday’s Los Angeles Times that explains how safeguarding workers’ access to unions ensures a more prosperous society....
Powerful, well-funded business special interest groups have launched a campaign of misinformation to derail the Employee Free Choice Act, and in the process, make it harder for workers to achieve the American Dream. In a comprehensive rebuttal, American Rights...
CtW introduced Connect a couple of months ago as an online newsletter to bring you news, action items and workers’ voices from the movement to restore the American Dream in the 21st century. The response has been great, but...
