"The state’s two-year crackdown on companies that avoid paying employee taxes and workers’ compensation insurance has resulted in 220 stop-work orders at construction sites across Connecticut."

"Dozens of employees and labor activists picketed the Farmington offices of the American Red Cross on Wednesday to protest management demands that they say would limit union negotiating power and remove a requirement that registered nurses be on site for all blood drives."
 

"The union workers, which include 225 members of Local 3145 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, say the Red Cross is trying to cut or freeze their wages, slash their health care, force them to work unrealistic hours, and replace nurses with unlicensed supervisors."

"The stage for organized labor's resurgence would be set by reforms of healthcare and labor laws, Trumka said. . ."

"Jesse Hunt, the president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555, which represents about 900 train operators, station agents and power workers, said just over 80 percent of members voted in favor of the contract."

"The stalemate between Mercury Marine Inc. and its labor union remained Tuesday when no progress was made toward securing a deal that would keep hundreds of jobs in Fond du Lac."

"BART’s second largest labor union, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555, will vote today on a tentative four-year contract. Few details of the latest agreement have been made public, but Local 1555 President Jesse Hunt has touted it as 'equitable'."

"The firefighters are the largest group of city employees who will lose their jobs Oct. 1 unless a compromise can be reached by the labor union and Mayor Buddy Dyer's administration. The city has already shed 179 employees by offering severance and health insurance packages."

Click the headline to view a video of the March 24th labor rally outside of Bank of America in Boston

Click above to read a statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney on the importance of keeping a robust public option as a part of pending health care reform legislation.

Click to read a statement from AFL-CIO President John Sweeney on the unjust imprisonment of Burmese peace activist and political leader Aung San Suu Kyi.