PITTSBURGH, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama's speech Tuesday at the AFL-CIO convention comes amid a revival of labor optimism and spirit of empowerment, union officials say.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Political observers say U.S. labor unions are getting more attention from Democratic presidential hopefuls than they have in the past 20 years.
CHICAGO, May 23 (UPI) -- The Laborer's International Union of North America, part of the breakaway Change to Win group, is disaffiliating from the AFL-CIO.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- The top U.S. labor group is expected to lose another 450,000 members as Unite Here prepares to leave the recently diminished group.
SACRAMENTO, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- The head of AFL-CIO says members of three unions that left the U.S. labor organization last month may still participate in state and local AFL-CIO activities.
WASHINGTON, July 29 (UPI) -- The 1.4 million member United Food and Commercial Workers Friday became the third major union to end its affiliation with the AFL-CIO.
CHICAGO, July 25 (UPI) -- The Teamsters and the Service Employees International Union bolted from the AFL-CIO Monday, saying organized labor must pay more attention to organizing.
WASHINGTON, June 27 (UPI) -- Another big union has joined an alliance of U.S. labor groups opposing the policies and leaders of the AFL-CIO.
LOS ANGELES, June 16 (UPI) -- Leaders of five big unions representing about a third of U.S. union members created an alliance to challenge the AFL-CIO's policies, and perhaps break away.
WASHINGTON, April 29 (UPI) -- The head of the AFL-CIO says financial strain may force the layoffs of a quarter of the U.S. labor union's staff.
