Barack Obama, AlterNet AlterNet: Health and Wellness. September 7, 2009. President Barack Obama is speaking to the AFL-CIO today about health care. These are his remarks as prepared for delivery.
Tiffany Ten Eyck, Labor Notes. July 7, 2009. Tiffany Ten Eyck interviewed longtime Bay Area immigrant rights activist David Bacon about the immigration position of AFL-CIO and Change to Win.
Art Levine, Huffington Post. May 20, 2009. A definitive study of anti-union campaigns finds that corporations are punishing workers seeking to form a union with a wide range of tactics.
David Sirota, Open Left AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. May 20, 2009. AFL-CIO gears up to fight Obama's plans to push free-trade deals.
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. April 14, 2009. The AFL-CIO has launched a new Executive PayWatch site.
Tula Connell, Firedoglake AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. March 6, 2009. There's too much going on this week to focus on one topic. So here's a rundown from the world of working people and their unions.
Art Levine, Huffington Post. February 23, 2009. The GOP and the business community are waging a short-sighted battle against well-paid workers, the very people they need to rescue the economy.
Rachel Weiner, Huffington Post AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. February 11, 2009. Virginia Republican Eric Cantor is in hot water after responding to critics with a profane web video.
David Moberg, The Nation. September 1, 2008. Meet Working America: a 2.5 million online member organization created by the AFL-CIO with a working-class base and a strategy to win.
Tula Conell, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. July 18, 2008. The AFL-CIO sponsored Bad Boss Contest gathers some incredible stories about working for horrible people.
Les Leopold, AlterNet. April 9, 2008. Long after the Democratic Party abandoned labor interests, Tony Mazzocchi continued to fight for the working class.
Nelson Lichtenstein, Comment Is Free. November 29, 2007. The AFL-CIO's unconventional — and surprisingly successful — strategy to make American organized labor politically powerful again.
Mark Gruenberg, Workday Minnesota. October 30, 2007. "There is no historic precedent for such aggressive efforts by the board to curtail workers' rights of freedom of association and collective bargaining."
