The Label Letter is the official newsletter of the Union Label & Service Trades Department, AFL-CIO. It is published bimonthly and includes the Do Buy and official AFL-CIO Boycott Lists. Subscriptions are available to members only. With the exception of copyrighted material, permission to reprint is hereby granted, but credit to the source is appreciated.
Where are the Jobs, Mr. President?
By Robert Martinez, Jr. Working people were promised the world in 2016. Candidate Trump boastfully proclaimed that, if elected, “you won’t lose one plant. You’ll have plants coming into this country. You’re going to have jobs again… I promise you.” Robert Martinez,...
What’s in the HEROES Act
More money for education $90 billion for state fiscal stabilization grants to support schools and public post-secondary institutions and $10 billion in relief for colleges and students. Aid to state and local government Provides more than a trillion dollars to state...
Historic Drive to Unionize Nurses in NC
The National Nurses Union may make inroads into the highly anti-union, right-to-work state of North Carolina. Nurses at Mission Hospital made clear their intent to unionize when they filed a petition in March with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The nearly...
NLRB Reviewing Contract Bar Doctrine
The Trump National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will study the “contract bar doctrine,” in a dispute over decertifying the union representing workers at the Delaware-based Mountaire Farms poultry processing plant. The vote to push out the United Food and Commercial...
New Study Analyzes the Economic and Financial Impact of Right-to-Work Laws
In a new study published in the Journal of Financial Economics, researchers from the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology analyzed the economic and financial impact of right-to-work (RTW) laws in the U.S. Using data from collective...
