TEXAS AFL-CIO ENDORSES NAACP CRITICISM OF ABBOTT AS 'HONORARY GRAND MARSHAL' OF ARLINGTON MLK PARADE

  Texas AFL-CIO President Rick Levy issued the following statement on the choice of Gov. Greg Abbott as Honorary Grand Marshal of the Toyota North Texas Martin Luther King Jr. Parade:

TEXAS AFL-CIO ENDORSES NAACP CRITICISM OF ABBOTT AS 'HONORARY GRAND MARSHAL' OF ARLINGTON MLK PARADE

Northeast Semi-Supersonic Train to be Union Built

The developers of a train that would travel nearly half the speed of sound and get passengers from New York to Washington, D.C., in about an hour signed a memorandum of understanding to only use union labor on the project.

Northeast Semi-Supersonic Train to be Union Built

Tax Plan’s Biggest Cuts Could Be in Living Standards

A decade ago or so, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center and the liberal-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimated that making the Bush tax cuts permanent — rather than letting them expire in 2010 — would increase the after-tax

Tax Plan’s Biggest Cuts Could Be in Living Standards

Bank Deregulation Bill Will Leave Taxpayers Holding the Bag

These days, it’s hard to keep straight all of Congress’ efforts to build plutocracy — the further consolidation of the power of the richest Americans at the expense of the rest of us. 

Bank Deregulation Bill Will Leave Taxpayers Holding the Bag

TEXAS AFL-CIO MOURNS STEVE MOSTYN

  Texas AFL-CIO President Rick Levy issued this statement on the death of Texas trial lawyer Steve Mostyn:

  “The officers and staff of the Texas AFL-CIO are in mourning over the death of Steve Mostyn, an extraordinary trial lawyer and friend of working people in our state.”

TEXAS AFL-CIO MOURNS STEVE MOSTYN

Washington State’s Innovative Aerospace Apprenticeship Program Touted

As National Apprenticeship Week kicks off, a new report from the Working for America Institute and Jobs With Justice Education Fund profiles a Washington state apprenticeship program as a suc

Washington State’s Innovative Aerospace Apprenticeship Program Touted