Union Privilege Scholarship Program Helps Develop Leadership Diversity
Union Privilege Scholarship Program Helps Develop Leadership Diversity For Immediate Release January 26, 2008 Washington, DC— Applications for the Union Leaders of the Future Scholarship are now available. Embracing its mission to enhance the value of union membership and support a stronger labor movement, Union Privilege offers the Union Leaders ...... more

CLUW Joins Global Pearl Of Wisdom Campaign To Prevent Cervical Cancer
Coalition Promotes Pearl of Wisdom As Worldwide Symbol of Cervical Cancer Prevention Marking Cervical Cancer Awareness Month in January, the Coalition of Labor Union Women has joined a coalition of women’s health and advocacy organizations in the United States and Europe in a new, united effort to prevent cervical cancer worldwide. The Pearl of ...... more

Steelworkers Congratulate Firestone Agricultural Workers Union of Liberia (FAWUL) on Receiving AFL-CIO Human Rights Award
The United Steelworkers (USW) applauded the decision by the AFL-CIO when it awarded its 2007 George Meany-Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award to the Firestone Agricultural Workers Union of Liberia (FAWUL) on March 5. For the first time in Bridgestone-Firestone’s 82-year existence in Liberia, the more than 4,000 workers at the Firestone Rubber Plantation ...... more

Congress, at USW Request, Seeks Emergency Protection for New Drummond Witness
New Evidence Surfaces in Case Involving Murders of Three Colombian Trade Unionists Congressman Bill Delahunt (D, Mass.) appealed yesterday to Colombia president Alvaro Uribe to take immediate measures to protect two men currently in prison there. The men may be important witnesses in a civil court case that accuses Drummond Ltd., the Colombian subsidiary ...... more

USW Resolution On The Genocide In Darfur
Last week, The United Steelworkers’ International Executive Board passed the following resolution on Darfur. Since 2003, over 400,000 people have died in Darfur as a result of a Sudanese Government-sponsored campaign of violence and deliberate starvation that the State Department has rightly described as genocide. To stop the slaughter, the United Nations Security Council passed ...... more

Black Trade Unionists Call for Working Family Policies
Picture this: a stronger, more diverse labor movement that pushes our nation to have an economic and political system that values workers' rights, offers health care for all and delivers on promises of a stable retirement. That's the agenda the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists presented during its 36th annual convention held recently in Chicago, ...... more

AFL-CIO President Protests Atrocious Human Rights in Meeting with Colombian President
In a meeting with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe this afternoon, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney expressed the strong opposition of the AFL-CIO to a bilateral free trade agreement between Colombia and the United States at this time. Colombia's atrocious human rights record sets it apart from the rest of the world. There is no labor language that could ...... more

AFL-CIO and National Textile Association File First-Ever Worker Rights Case Under U.S.-Jordan Free Trade Agreement
The AFL-CIO, the largest labor federation in the U.S., representing more than 10 million workers, and the National Textile Association, which represents U.S. textile producers, mainly in the knitting, weaving, and finishing sectors, joined to file the first worker rights case ever submitted under the U.S.-Jordan Free Trade Agreement (FTA). This is the ...... more

Senate Passes Voting Rights Reauthorization Bill Overwhelmingly
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) reauthorization seems to be back on track as the Senate swiftly passed the bill, 98-0, on July 20. After GOP meddling in the House held up the bill for over three weeks, the Senate passed "The Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King and Cesar Chavez Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of ...... more

National Labor Committee Investigation Triggers Panel Discussion of Solutions to Brutal Human Rights Violations of Workers in Jordan
AFL-CIO Documents Violations; USW Pressure on Jordan Produces Results Six years after the groundbreaking US-Jordan Free Trade Agreement included enforceable provisions for workers’ rights, workers in Jordan are still waiting for good news. The Jordan agreement was the first of its kind negotiated with an Arab country and was heralded as a way to align ...... more

Recent Study Suggests Bush Administration Lags In Civil Rights Enforcement
A recent report from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) states that during the Bush years, enforcement of civil rights cases has dropped dramatically. Using key data from the Justice Department and the federal courts, the study suggests the instances when the investigative agencies recommended that charges be filed against a particular ...... more

A. Philip Randolph Institute Announces Support for the A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum's National African American Labor History Monument Project
The A. Philip Randolph Institute ("APRI") announced that it will join with the AFL-CIO and lend its full support to the initiative launched by the A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum (APRPPM) to erect a National African American Labor History Monument on the museum’s grounds in Chicago, Ill. The monument will honor and celebrate the many contributions ...... more