Author: Union Label Department, AFL-CIO

Social Security, Other Issues Face a Crucial 2016 Election

Jul 19, 2016 | |

Social Security has a Union Label. The 1935 passage of the original Social Security act was preceded by long-term labor movement activism. Every subsequent improvement and extension of social security protection was moved forward by labor movement action. Protections for disabled workers, Medicare and Medicaid, all part of the Social Security program, were the result of pressure from the labor movement and its allies in government and beyond.

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Stop the Waiting Games: Fund the TSA

Stop the Waiting Games: Fund the TSA

Jul 19, 2016 | |

By J. David Cox, Sr., AFGE National President

You can have fast lines or good security, but you can’t have both. At least not with the skeleton crew with which the Transportation Security Administration is currently operating.

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Thousands rally as 22,000 miners are threatened with cut off of health benefits

Jun 28, 2016 | |

UMWA Plans March on Washington

Lexington, Kentucky–Over 5,000 miners rallied here last Tuesday to protest health benefit cuts threatened to happen before the end of the year. Responding to the call of their union, United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), miners came from seven states to gather at the convention center. Some arrived with walkers, canes, wheel chairs, and oxygen tanks, giving tangible evidence of the toll on human health inflicted by the mining industry.

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