AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | New Journalism, New Organizing Strategies for Freelancers Steve Stallone, International Labor Communications Association (ILCA) president and editor of Ralph, the publication of the California Media Workers Guild, describes how members of The Newspaper Guild-Communications Workers of America (TNG-CWA) are experimenting with innovative programs to strengthen the newspaper trade and their jobs as print communicators

Unions create governmentwide coalition (1/11/10) -- GovExec.com Building on their success in battling the Pentagon's pay-for-performance system with a united front, a number of federal labor unions announced on Monday a new governmentwide coalition to advocate for federal workers on the policy front.

'The Tea Party Movement Is About To Be Hijacked': Activists Slam Plan For Convention In the latest sign of rancor in Tea Party circles, a convention billed as an effort to bring together conservative activists from across the country is being attacked by some leading Tea Partiers as inauthentic, too tied to the GOP, and -- at $549 per head -- too expensive for the working Americans the movement aspires to represent.

Take Action: AFGE petitions DHS Secretary to grant TSOs Collective Bargaining Rights! The men and women who help protect America’s transportation system need your support. They have worked diligently to keep the more than 600 million people who fly each year--and hundreds of millions of other Americans--safe and have done so despite the absence of labor laws to protect themselves.

Firefighters Rip Obama For Breaking Campaign Promise Over Cadillac Tax The International Association of Fire Fighters--an influential union that belongs to the AFL-CIO--has released the strongest condemnation yet of President Obama's support for taxing high-end health insurance plans as a means of financing a major health care overhaul--accusing him of breaking a campaign promise, and threatening to hold him accountable.

AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Tell Congress: Don’t Tax Working Families’ Health Care Benefits Today, union leaders are meeting with President Obama to discuss the next step in health care reform legislation, especially the tax on workers’ health care benefits in the Senate bill. On Wednesday, you can join the fight to pass health care reform that works for working families as part of the AFL-CIO’s National Call-In Blitz to the U.S. House

Labor Not Ready To Commit To Health Reform, Meeting With House Dems Soon Labor leaders are not yet ready to commit to supporting comprehensive health care reform legislation despite meeting with the president to discuss their concerns with aspects of health care legislation.