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.
ULLICO: Supporting the American Worker for more than 85 Years
At a time when life insurance was not available to union members, Samuel Gompers, the first and longest-serving president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), saw the value of a union-owned insurance company. And the rest, as they say, is history. On May 1,...
AFL-CIO to Congress: Direct NLRB to Develop Electronic Union Elections
In an urgent letter to Congressional leadership, the AFL-CIO and its affiliated national and international unions asked Congress, in its legislation to further respond to the COVID-19 crisis, that they include funding and a directive for the National Labor Relations...
Organizing in the Digital Age
On September 1, 2015, the National Labor Relations Board issued a memorandum allowing e-mail exchanges and various ‘internet/intranet sign-up methods’ to support a union organizing petition instead of (or in addition to) traditional authorization cards used for the...
House Passed $3 Trillion COVID Relief Package Bill, McConnell Refuses to Even Consider the Legislation
The House of Representatives passed another COVID relief bill in mid-May, designed to provide more relief to small businesses and put more money directly into Americans’ pockets. But the massive piece of legislation is still sitting on Senate leader Mitch McConnell’s...
Union Buster Warns Businesses of Unprecedented Rise in Labor Activism
Notorious union buster Rick Berman recently sent an urgent memo to employers across the country warning them that, “this is the first time since the early 1980s where I sense a significant interest by employees in ‘collective action’ and ‘3rd party representation.’”...
