RICHARD LARDNER / The Associated PressMar 5, 2018
What the National Rifle Association donates to candidates is small in comparison with the sums it spends on potent get-out-the-vote operations and ad campaigns. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
By Justin Elliott / ProPublicaJan 15, 2017
A rule that could secure overtime pay for 4 million workers is in limbo, and the president-elect will help decide whether it survives. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Eric Ortiz / TruthdigNov 12, 2016
The Massachusetts senator is ready to help President-elect Trump rebuild the U.S. economy. But if Republicans attempt to remove Wall Street regulations or gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, she will fight them. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
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By Nadia Prupis / Common DreamsMay 24, 2016
"We are going to make this an issue in congressional races. No one will be able to run from this." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Robert Reich / TruthdigApr 3, 2013
Their agreement is very preliminary and hasn’t yet even been blessed by the so-called Gang of Eight senators working on immigration reform, but the mere fact that AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Chamber of Commerce President Thomas J. Donohue agreed on anything is remarkable. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Joe Conason / TruthdigMar 24, 2013
Trumka recently spoke with The National Memo about the sequester's automatic budget cuts, the danger of cuts to Social Security, the Keystone XL pipeline, immigration reform, President Obama and how to defend labor in an era of attacks on the right to organize. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Thomas Hedges / TruthdigFeb 14, 2013
The group, which targeted the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO headquarters Tuesday, wants to see the minimum wage raised from its current $7.25 an hour to $10.50. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive LawFeb 6, 2013
Under its current president, the organization has failed to address the mounting threat against labor in the United States from the loss of bargaining rights to the refusal to adjust minimum wage standards to the push against implementing the "card check" union organizing system, Harry Kelber says. The organization has failed to address the mounting threat against labor in the United States, Harry Kelber says. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Peter Z. Scheer / TruthdigJan 10, 2013
Mother Jones profiles a growing coalition of environmental, labor and civil rights groups, including Greenpeace and the NAACP, that began meeting off the record in December to try to figure out "what to do to beat back the deep-pocketed conservative movement." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 7, 2011
The precise effects of the broad deunionization of the American workforce since the 1970s are difficult to quantify, but a recent paper from the American Sociological Review has made an effort anyway The study found that in addition to raising the income of union laborers (more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Ruth Marcus / TruthdigJul 7, 2010
Rich Trumka -- the AFL-CIO president intercepts any attempted honorific with an easy "Call me Rich" -- comes armed with charts. His first one is, literally, in shades of gray. Its message is anything but. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 19, 2010
Sen Blanche Lincoln helped sink the proposed Employee Free Choice Act, which would have made labor organizing much easier Now the Democrat is headed to a primary runoff against Arkansas Lt Gov Bill Halter (above), thanks in part to a massive multimillion-dollar campaign effort by the AFL-CIO and the SEIU (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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