The New Deal government represented new forces and politics. It operated through the Democratic Party. It made the Democrats as a party the majority party of the country, something they had not been since before the Civil War.

"Sen. McCain’s record shows he’s in lockstep with President Bush and the Administration’s corporate allies," said AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker in a press statement today responding to John McCain's June 3rd speech in Louisiana.

Prominent New Dealer, Rexford Guy Tugwell, author of The Battle for Democracy, was a "brain truster" or policy advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt and served under Department of Agriculture Secretary Henry A. Wallace. Tugwell was typical of the “new people” who had come to Washington in 1933 with Roosevelt’s election.

Globalization has created a situation which generated a worldwide phenomenon of migration of millions of workers to other countries. Finance capital’s thrust for cheap labor to bring down the cost of production in an environment of cut throat competition has given a powerful impetus to the phenomenon of migration of labor both within as well as outside the country.

Silicon Valley janitors, mostly immigrants from Mexico and Central America, walked out of Cisco Systems and Yahoo buildings in the first day of a Bay Area-wide strike intended to force building service contractors to sign a new agreement with their union, Service Employees Local 1877.

New York – With growing excitement, involvement, and independence, the labor movement could have its biggest impact on national elections in 2008 than it has had since the 1930s, said Communist Party Labor Commission Chair Scott Marshall in a teleconference with activists last week.

Describing John McCain simply as a "Bush sequel" and Republican Party campaign tactics as "divisive" and "destructive," a May 12th statement issued by the International Executive Board of the United Steelworkers (USW) called for the unity of working people to defeat the Republicans in the November 4th elections.

A poll conducted in the key battleground state of Florida shows Republican presidential nominee John McCain winning no more than 44% of the vote against either Democratic presidential frontrunner Barack Obama or Sen. Hillary Clinton.

In the big immigrant marches that swept the country on May Day in 2006 and 2007, one sign said it all: "We are Workers, not Criminals!" Often it was held in the calloused hands of men and women who looked as though they'd just come from work in a factory, cleaning an office building, or picking grapes.

NEW YORK - Trade unionists, housing activists, and residents of New York City public housing gathered at City Hall today to protest the Bush administration's proposed budget cuts to the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA).

Don't expect any labor union to endorse John McCain for president in the general election. The wounds from the Bush-Cheney Administration are just too deep. But, their reasons aren't because of social justice issues that once pervaded the labor movement, but on bread-and-butter issues that have dominated unions the past five decades.

Whereas the war in Iraq is immoral, unwanted, and unnecessary,

Whereas this unjust war is opposed by the great majority of Americans & Vermonters, the bulk of organized labor, and by thousands of enlisted military personal, ...

Senate Republicans filibustered a bill Apr. 24 that would have helped women workers achieve pay equity. Republican presidential nominee John McCain expressed opposition to the bill but refused to show up in the Senate to cast his vote on it.

Bush refused to go quietly, but congressional Democrats dealt a stinging blow to one of his administration's top priorities this week when they refused to hold a vote on the Colombia Free Trade Agreement and stripped the bill of its three-month deadline.

In a brief but stirring commemorative speech in Fort Wayne, Indiana, April 4, on the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the 40th anniversary of his assassination, Democratic presidential frontrunner Barack Obama recalled the civil rights leader's courage, his eloquence, and his leadership ability.

March 31st would have been Cesar Chavez's 81st birthday. This date also coincided with the March National Committee meeting of the Communist Party USA. Over the weekend, we had the chance to ask a few NC members what Cesar Chavez means to them.

UNITE HERE, the union representing workers in the textile, clothing, hotel and restaurant industries, has called for equal access to marriage and its benefits for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workers.

As the economic crisis deepens and Republican nominee Sen. John McCain (AZ) admits he doesn’t “know much about economics,” voters, especially working-class voters, are looking for a change from Bush-style politics and leadership that will actually address economic issues.

At its quarterly national committee meeting this past weekend, the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) called for a landslide in the November 4th elections to defeat John McCain and strengthening the Democratic Party majorities in Congress.

The AFL-CIO is stressing unity among workers, their allies, community groups and even some sympathetic businesses in its massive election-year drive for universal, affordable national health care to be enacted next year.