UWUA News
Unions, Including UWUA, Mobilizing Support for Critz Share
The backing goes far beyond a handshake and a press release: Union leaders are coordinating an extensive ground campaign for Critz that includes thousands of phone calls, workplace visits and even the use of social media such as Facebook. Read More

Labor News
Twenty-Five Faces of an American Uprising Share
The courage, optimism and steady determination of Wisconsinites, many of whom had never engaged in public protest or political action before, is what undid Walker’s best-laid plans. Read More

Chinese Labor, Cheap No More Share
China has experienced sporadic labor shortages, which in turn have driven up its once rock-bottom labor costs. Read More

Industry News
City Considers Pros and Cons of PGW Sale Share
Administration officials are making their rounds to discuss the possible sale of the Philadelphia Gas Works as the city prepares to test the market with an eye to a possible sale. Read More

Public Utilities
Senate Votes to Reform Utility Companies’ Emergency Response Share
“This legislation will increase communication between utility companies and municipalities to facilitate a faster, more efficient response to power outages throughout the Commonwealth. Read More

Utility Seeks OK for Pollution Upgrades Share
Rocky Mountain Power is asking state regulators for permission to extend the life of its Naughton coal-fired power plant in southwest Wyoming with costly pollution control upgrades. Read More

COPE (Political Education)
After Bailout of Auto Industry, Detroit Fallout Trails Romney Share
As Congress and the White House scrambled in the fall of 2008 to confront the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression, Mitt Romney felt compelled to say what many in his native Michigan would consider heresy: Do not bail out the troubled American automakers. Read More

AFL-CIO: Republicans Voted Almost 100% Wrong on Labor Issues Share
By contrast, 72 Democrats voted in agreement with labor's stands every time. Another 8 missed votes here and there but still never voted against the union stand. Read More

8 Things You Didn’t Know About Payroll Tax-Cut Deal Share
“It took the president a while to realize this, but there is nothing he can persuade the Republicans to do beyond this immediate bill that would relate in any way to the immediate economic recovery,” Thomas Mann, a government expert with the Brookings Institution, told The Fiscal Times. Read More

ALEC, Koch Brothers and Amelia Island Share
Armies of well-dressed, fresh-faced Republican legislators, many of them newly elected, march dutifully off to some remote island, where twin voodoo kings put them all under a dark spell. Read More

Human Rights
EEOC: Discrimination Based on Pregnancy, Caregiving Remains Widespread Problem Share
According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, despite laws, guidance, and willingness to work, many pregnant women and caregivers continue to be denied job opportunities, workplace modifications, leave, and equal treatment. Read More

Labor’s Day in History
23 February 1904 Share
William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Chronicle began publishing articles on the menace of Japanese laborers, leading to a resolution of the California Legislature that action be taken against their immigration.

24 February 1912
Women and children were beaten by police during a textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Read More