Labor Law Is Toothless
Errol Hohrein explains how his employer ignored workers' decision to form a union even though 90 percent signed cards saying they wanted to join a union.

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Exposing the Health Care Hustle
Millions of Americans are caught up in the health care hustle, being victimized by a broken health care system. Working America is exposing our unhealthy system on a new website.

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Agenda for America's Middle Class
Stronger unions and better labor laws are key to strengthening America's middle class say members of a new network of progressive economists and policy analysts, the Agenda for Shared Prosperity.

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'We Need Employee Free Choice Act'
Even though their employer has intimidated and harassed them for five years, Gracie Heldman and her co-workers are still fighting to form a union.

 

National Day Laborers Network
Improving the wages and working conditions of the most vulnerable will benefit all workers, says Pablo Alvarado, head of the National Day Laborers Organizing Network.

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The Union-Cingular Connection
Workers at Cingular Wireless find that forming a union with the Communications Workers of America is a lot simpler with the majority sign-up verification process than by going through the antiquated National Labor Relations Board election process.

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Workers Talking to Workers
Working families' success Nov. 7 was fueled by the commitment of AFT retiree Ed Pace and thousands of other union members whose passion and hard work got out the vote in state after state.

 

Raising the Minimum Wage in the States
In six states, AFL-CIO activists worked to pass Nov. 7 ballot initiatives that would raise the minimum wage.

 

Working America
Working America, the AFL-CIO community affiliate, reached out to low- and middle-income people whose votes made a big difference in the Nov. 7 elections.