Labor

In today's On the News segment: The Chamber of Commerce knows that a government shutdown will hurt families and corporations alike; Typhoon Man-yi forced Japan's Fukushimaoperators to release more …

The real motive for war in US foreign policy is shielded, protecting the super rich Americans who relentlessly warmonger for profit.

The US's largest labor federation, the AFL-CIO, pledged at its '13 convention to work more closely with community-based affiliates & its grassroots organizing arm, Working America.

On August 29, 2013, the 60,000-member International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) announced it was leaving the 13-million member AFL-CIO.

Robert Reich's new film takes a look at how inequality is a disease that is plaguing the entire country.

Laborers live near a WWII Japanese Internment camp and in not much different conditions while Congress debates migrant worker bills.

Jonah Raskin reviews Nathan Schneider's book ‘Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse.’

The fact that their enemies are extreme doesn't mean that Boehner and Cantor aren't.

The AFL-CIO convention passed a resolution vowing to fight any trade agreement that promotes the rise in corporate power at the expense of working people.

Obamacare is perhaps the most blatant example of the complete incompetency of many US labor leaders, who've tied the fate of organized labor to the Democratic Party, with disastrous …