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… Fairness in Radio: A Performance Right for Sound Recordings Recorded music made in the United States has both great cultural significance and enormous … recording artists whose names appear on the recording or the session artists whose “background” performances are integral to its style and quality—work hard to create recordings that have artistic merit and commercial value. Yet these talented and hardworking performers …

… It is time for our nation to take bold steps to meet the 21st century challenges related to climate change. Scientific evidence has confirmed that … All the AFL-CIO-supported investments and actions serve to broaden the “green jobs” brand so it includes all kinds of work. Our members and workers everywhere—with their knowledge, skills and experience—have valuable insights to offer for the … for workers at all levels of decision-making, skill development and stronger laws that promote "employment rights and the right to organize and bargain collectively.” One major breakthrough in Bali was an agreement by China and other developing …

… Act: Million-Member Mobilization Our Bargaining Rights: Worth Working For, Our Bargaining Rights: Worth Voting For Due to massive efforts by the affiliates of the AFL-CIO, allied organizations, faith-based organizations and local, state and … for labor law reform in both the U.S. House and Senate. Now, opponents such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Right to Work Committee, the Center for Union Facts, the Heritage Foundation and hostile employers have mounted a huge no-holds-barred …

… Ever since Leon Lynch went to work at the Youngstown Sheet & Tube mill in East Chicago, Ind., and joined United Steelworkers Local 1011 more than a … the union that would last for nearly four decades. His first position was as a staff representative, and he was promoted to international representative after five years. Lynch then was sent to work with Local 7655, which represented employees of …

… larger pro-working family majorities in the House and Senate presents working Americans with an unprecedented opportunity to reverse decades of declining living standards and eroding economic power. Americans woke up on November 5th with the first real chance in at least a generation to rebuild the middle class by investing in good jobs, health care and restoring the freedom to form and join unions. The new … ads, candidates up and down the ballot who support the Employee Free Choice Act won clear victories. Now the real work begins. Reversing the erosion of workers’ rights and the decades-long slide in the percentage of workers covered by …

… and the resulting crisis in the U.S. sub-prime mortgage market have triggered a full–blown credit crisis, which now seems to be dragging the American economy into recession and slowing economic growth globally. Economic growth slowed sharply toward the end of 2007 and the economy began to shed jobs early this year. The unemployment rate rose to 4.9 percent in January but would be 6.7 percent if labor force … struggling to maintain their living standards by working longer hours and more jobs, by sending more family members to work and by borrowing against the equity in their homes. In terms of jobs, wages, health care and pensions, the recovery from …

… Council in August 2005 following the disaffiliation of several national unions from the AFL‑CIO, has made it possible to have a unified labor movement at the state and local levels. In states and communities across the country, local unions work together through the AFL‑CIO’s state and local organizations on common organizing, bargaining, legislative and political … few issues or problems in the program’s implementation or operation. At the same time, there are inherent shortcomings to the program, most notably that the Solidarity Charter program is no substitute for national AFL‑CIO affiliation and the …

… housing market and the cascading crises in the credit markets are the direct consequence of a 30-year experiment of trying to create a deregulated, low wage economy where high consumer spending is propped up by easy credit and asset bubbles.  Real … the economic health of the American middle class through good jobs, health care, retirement security and a voice at work for all.  And an important part of the solution must be the thoughtful, comprehensive re-regulation of the financial … loan market, are frozen—the result of speculative excess and a massive loss of confidence in the information available to investors.  Only thoughtful re-regulation can restore that confidence and the ability of the markets to properly function. …