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Obama addresses AFL-CIO on Labor Day

The entire eight years former president George W. Bush was in office, unions were systematically shut out of the White House and corporate interests took the reigns of the Department of Labor.

Unite Here rejoins AFL-CIO

Unite Here rejoined the AFL-CIO "House of Labor" September 17 at the AFL-CIO's national convention.

Senate Republicans block confirmation of President Obama’s NLRB nominee

Republican Senators succeeded in blocking a final vote on the appointment of labor lawyer Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board.

The Story of the 2014 Elections: Low Voter Turnout

There were few surprises in this year’s elections, with pollsters saying for weeks that the Republicans would win control of the U.S. Senate and increase their majority in the House of Representatives. That’s exactly what happened this week, and it happened because too many Democrats stayed home.

La Historia De Las Elecciones Del 2014: Baja Participación De Los Votantes

Hubo pocas sorpresas en las elecciones de este año, ya las encuestas indicaban durante las semanas previas que los republicanos iban a ganar el control del Senado de los Estados Unidos y que iban a aumentar su mayoría en la Cámara de Representantes.

Republicans in Congress Stall Immigration Reform

Some 11 million undocumented workers in the U.S. will have to keep waiting for any kind of federal immigration reform, after House Speaker John Boehner broke his promise this week to bring the issue up for a vote.

Let’s Look At The Issues

Two years ago, the state of California was close to being declared a national disaster area. Governor Arnold Schwarzennegger had left the state with a staggering $28 billion budget deficit. Unemployment was in double digit territory. Air quality in the southern part of the state was so bad it led David Letterman to say, “Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.”

Michigan becomes a so called “right-to-work” state

HTC — January 06, 2013

Michigan, a state with 671,000 union members, became the 24th "right-to-work" state in the country when Rick Snyder signed two "right-to-work" bills into law at 5:19 pm and 5:21 pm on Tuesday, December 11, 2012.