The convention saw presentations from leaders from across Change to Win. Here's some pictures: Terry O'Sullivan, General President, Laborers International Union of North America Jim Hoffa, General President, International Brotherhood of Teamsters Arturo Rodriguez, President, United Farm Workers of America Andy...
One of the highlights of the convention was the release of the latest installment in the American Dream Project: our ongoing series of opinion surveys monitoring how Americans feel about their chances to achieve the American Dream. The previous two American...
OK, it's not really live. We run a lean operation here, so I was too busy helping out with the convention itself to have much time to blog it as things were happening. But it's only been about ten minutes...
Remember that Executive Order by New York Governor Eliot Spitzer on misclassification that we told you about? We've got some video from the announcement for your viewing pleasure, featuring (among others) CtW Executive Director Greg Tarpinian. Here it is:...
Great news from the House of Representatives yesterday -- the RESPECT Act has been passed by the House Education and Labor Committee: A House panel moved Wednesday to make it harder for companies to classify workers as supervisors and thus...
If you want to know just how broken the system that's supposed to protect workers' right to organize has become, read this story in today's Las Vegas Sun about three Wal-Mart workers in Nevada who tried to join together in a...
Unions bring higher wages and better benefits to the workers they represent, but they also bring increased productivity to employers and the overall economy. Anti-union critics say unionization lowers productivity. But according to recent data from the International Labor Organization...
Since we've written before in this space about the inappropriate military-style tactics being employed against workers these days by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), you might be interested to know that one of our partner unions, the United Food...
Workers who are misclassified as independent contractors in New York are getting the help they deserve. Governor Eliot Spitzer announced a new Executive Order today aimed at preventing employee misclassification. The order creates a Joint Enforcement Task Force that...
Whaddaya know, I was just talking about how union workers have better access to health care than non-union workers do, and along comes a new study that reinforces the point. The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) released a...
Now that reality TV has brought us such compelling moments as Donald Trump screaming at us and random idiots off the street eating bugs, it takes a Really Big Idea to put a new show at the top of the tastelessness...
Ever since Change to Win began, we've been paying attention to something we think is a key indicator of working people's fortunes: how they feel about the American Dream. The American Dream means different things to different people. But just...
