Author: Union Label Department, AFL-CIO

The votes were: Korea 278-51 (Korea – http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll783.xml); Panama 300-129 (Panama – http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll782.xml); Colombia 262-167 (Colombia –...

The AFL-CIO has declared the ten days following Thanksgiving (November 25 through December 4, 2011) as “Buy Union Week.” The action adopted by the AFL-CIO’s 25th Constitutional Convention also urges affiliated unions to use “all...

Economists will tell you it takes two elements to create a marketplace: supply and demand. Producers create the supply; consumers provide the demand. The phrase isn’t “supply and suggest or request” it’s “supply and demand.”...

As James Carville once famously reminded candidate Bill Clinton: “It’s the economy, stupid.” Demonstrators in New York, Los Angeles, Washington and hundreds of other cities across the nation are emphasizing that point again....

List from www.unionplus.org When those little ghosts and goblins come collecting on Halloween, make sure you have a full supply of union-made-in-America treats for them. Here’s a brief list of choices of candy products...