Author: Union Label Department, AFL-CIO

Effective October 15, 2012, the AFL-CIO has endorsed the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers’ boycott of American Crystal Sugar Company. This boycott covers all Crystal Sugar brand retail sugar...

When Bank of America and Wells Fargo tried to foist off expensive new debit card fees to customers earlier this year, the move touched off a consumer revolt that yielded 650,000 new accounts and infused some $4.5 billion in new...

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...