Saying workers are buffeted by automation, globalization and robotics, which threaten high joblessness, and firms robbing them of bargaining power to fight back and get jobs in the looming new economy, the AFL-CIO launched a year-long study of the state of work and the state of U.S. unions. Replying

The Trans-Pacific Partnership died because it ultimately failed America’s working families. Instead of addressing the economic devastation wreaked by wrong-headed trade deals, the TPP doubled down on a failed, corporate-driven ideology. We lost 2 million jobs to bad trade rules with TPP nations in

As walkouts by teachers protesting low pay and education funding shortfalls spread across the country, the small but growing movement to recruit teachers from overseas is another sign of the difficulty some districts are having providing the basics to public school students. Among the latest states

Never before has there been so much labor unrest in America’s public schools. Teachers, understandably angry about low pay and harmful cuts in education resources, have organized statewide walkouts in West Virginia, Kentucky and Oklahoma. Arizona and Mississippi may be next to act. This time of

When we fail to invest in public services, living standards decline and communities suffer — overcrowded classrooms, understaffed prisons and more. But let’s remember what originally made public-sector jobs middle class: labor unions. The right to bargain collectively has allowed millions of public

In any business, the people who do the work deserve to have a voice in their working conditions. Drivers for companies like Uber and Lyft are no different. By working with allies in the labor movement and in our communities, drivers are standing together to change the direction of this emerging