Author: Union Label Department, AFL-CIO

By Andrew Taylor WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate has passed a bill aimed at boosting job growth by giving tax breaks to businesses that hire the unemployed. The jobs legislation would also extend highway and mass transit...

From the Wall Street Journal(2/22/10) A Letter to the Editor: Susan Michaelson wants the American public to shift expectations about what constitutes “appropriate” compensation because American wage and benefits demands have...

by Mike Hall, Feb 22, 2010 Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) member Robin De Haven is being hailed as hero for his role in rescuing five people from the blazing Austin, Texas, building where a man with a vendetta against the...

The Whirlpool Corp. is closing a refrigerator manufacturing plant in Evansville, Ind., putting more than 1,100 people out of work. Even worse, Whirlpool will continue to produce these refrigerators, but not in Evansville and not...

Washington, DC, February 18, 2010.  U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will award the City of Tucson, AZ with $63 million in federal stimulus funds today for the construction of a four-mile, $150 million modern streetcar...