Author: Union Label Department, AFL-CIO

On Labor Day 2013, dignitaries will cut the ribbon on a new $12 billion bridge linking San Francisco and Oakland. It will be a bittersweet ceremony marking the end of a project that employed hundreds of union construction...

From Labor Day, Monday, September 3, through Sunday September 9, 2012, American la­bor will observe Union Label Week—the time traditionally set aside for union families and all consumers to make a special effort to support good...

The AFL-CIO announced that as of August 6, 2012, it has endorsed the United Steelworkers’ boycott of Palermo’s pizza. This boycott covers Palermo’s brand pizza, “Classics” brand pizza, and private...

From the May/June 2012 Label Letter Unionized workers in the U.S. Postal Service continue their battle on Capitol Hill to save the service from a barrage of cuts that the unions charge are politically motivated and unnecessary....