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There are some of us who would rather deal with “Snakes on a Plane” than a nearby fellow passenger jabbering away on his cell phone as we’re winging across the country or, heaven forbid, even further.
In our regular weekly feature, we'll be taking a look at the winners and losers of the week in the struggle for the rights of working families. The winners will be the persons or organizations that go above and beyond to expand or protect the rights of working families, while the losers will be whoever went above and beyond to limit or deny those rights.
As International Women’s Day approaches, the global labor movement is mobilizing to put teeth into the celebration’s 2014 theme, “Equality for women is progress for all.” The AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center allies around the world also are getting set to highlight the struggles of working women with actions that include rallies by banana workers who are members of the union SITRABI in Guatemala and a conference honoring women workers from Jordan and Palestine. (Follow Women’s Day actions on Twitter with the hashtag #IWD2014.)
Kentucky's attorney general announced Tuesday he does not plan to appeal an order to recognize same-sex marriages performed out-of-state.In a news conference Tuesday, Attorney General Jack Conway, a Democrat, said if he appealed, "I would be defending discrimination. That I will not do.
Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to Ukraine on Tuesday and condemned Russia’s use of “aggression and intimidation as a first resort” in its takeover of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea.
The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has joined the growing chorus of national and international voices urging the Kellogg Co. to end its four-month-old lockout of more than 220 workers at its Memphis, Tenn., plant.
More than 160 years after misspelling a now famous subject's name, a reader's tweet has led The New York Times to set the record straight.An article first published on Jan.
Check out this great new video, "Washington's Dirty Little (Trade) Secret," debunking promises about the job creation effects of NAFTA and the U.S.-Korea FTA....It makes you wonder why we should believe those promises this time around?
Here are some headlines from the working families news we're reading today (after the jump).
The eight cars swallowed by a gaping sinkhole at the National Corvette Museum are exhumed.
