The American nation has an excellent opportunity to change the nature of politics in our country this year. We have a real chance to build lasting alliances that will re-define the political landscape at every level of government and permit us to take back our government by the average citizen.

Daily blogs at the AFL-CIO's site that expose McCain's plan to continue George W. Bush's policies on outsourcing jobs, an unending occupation of Iraq, privatizing Social Security, taxing health care benefits, and more oil drilling combine with the McCain Revealed campaign and the Meet Barack Obama to help educate union members and their families on the issues.

Union activists affiliated with the WakeUpWalMart.com campaign circulated a petition this week via e-mail demanding the Federal Election Commission investigate whether Wal-Mart has violated federal election laws.

he World Federation of Trade Unions strongly condemns the dismissal of 22,000 part-time public employees in California and the cuts in the wages of most of the state’s 200,000 employees.

The Communist Party's program, "Election 2008: Help Make History," addresses the urgent situation and the tremendous opportunity to defeat the ultra-right in this election and create the conditions to turn the country around.

Pledging to implement policies that will boost the economy and protect the right of workers to join unions, Barack Obama spoke with thousands of labor activists by teleconference July 31.

Union members protest the decision by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to cut the wages of over two hundred thousand state workers to the Federal minimum wage of $6.55/hour, alleging he must do so because the state legislature has not passed a budget.

An unprecedented discussion is sweeping the country about how to change direction for the common good. Tens of thousands of union members are knocking on the doors of millions of co-workers and their families to talk about the issues.

The federal minimum wage is due to increase today, July 24, to $6.55 per hour. Passage of the increase was one of the first accomplishments of the new Democratic-controlled Congress, and the wage is scheduled to rise again next summer to $7.25.

Describing racism as an "evil" that damages working families and the labor movement, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka, earlier this month, spoke at the United Steelworkers convention and called for support for Barack Obama.

The AFL-CIO today announced the formation of a national Union Veterans Council that will enlist millions of veterans to improve urgent veterans’ and pocketbook issues and expose the records of candidates for office at every level on these issues.

Describing the economic interests of workers in the industrialized countries and those of workers in developing countries as "inextricably tied," United Auto Workers (UAW President Ron Gettelfinger presented a keynote address to the International Metalworkers' Federation (IMF) in Sao Paulo, Brazil last month.

The Scottish TUC welcomed a new economic report by the Communist Party of Britain Scottish committee on Friday as an important contribution to the debate on enhancing democratic control of the economy.

As anxious banks sack staff and brace themselves for the next crash, the question being asked in the financial columns of the media is: who will be next? No doubt a very important question for the banks.

In the summer of 2005, the AFL-CIO convention in Chicago passed a groundbreaking resolution. After several speakers rose to argue vigorously for a “friendly amendment”, the convention called for the “rapid” withdrawal of US Troops from Iraq.

The idea that John McCain will pick up women voters who backed Clinton is "mythology" and a "pipe dream," said Ellen Malcolm, president of Emily's List, a women voter's organization that had strongly endorsed Hillary Clinton in the primaries.

15 million. That, according to data complied by the Department of Labor, is the approximate number of full-time jobs needed to put unemployed, underemployed, and discouraged workers back to work in the U.S.

Unemployment rose in May, from 5% to 5.5%, the largest one month jump in over 20 years. The national average for a gallon of gas reached $4 this week, with the upward spiral expected to continue.

International Labor Organization Director General Juan Somavia, speaking at the annual conference of ILO in Geneva this week, summoned labor rights advocates to urgently challenge what he called globalization without social justice.

Despite kidnappings, murders, and other egregious human rights violations against union leaders and activists in Iraq, unions are continuing the fight to give Iraq's least powerful and least politically connected workers a voice in their own future.