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Energy Giantenrsquo;s Financial Mismanagement Leaves N.Y. Workers, Community On the Hook 

Energy Giantenrsquo;s Financial Mismanagement Leaves N.Y. Workers, Community On the Hook 
IBEW President Edwin D. Hill on Passage of Michigan Right-to-Work Bill

IBEW President Edwin D. Hill on Passage of Michigan Right-to-Work Bill
S.C. Organizers Bring IBEW Message to College Football Fans

S.C. Organizers Bring IBEW Message to College Football Fans
IBEW Unity Fund to Help Sandy Victims

IBEW Unity Fund to Help Sandy Victims
Working Families: enlsquo;Right-to-Work is Wrong for Michiganenrsquo;

Working Families: enlsquo;Right-to-Work is Wrong for Michiganenrsquo;
What Would a Free Trade Agreement with the EU Look Like?

In his 2013 State of the Union Address (SOTU), President Obama announced that the U.S. would soon begin talks on a “Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership”—in other words, the U.S. will begin negotiating a “free trade agreement” (FTA) with the European Union (EU).
Across the Nation, Working Families Say Stop Sequestration

Detroit’s below freezing temperatures and gray winter skies didn’t deter a group of union and community activists from gathering downtown in front of a Chase Bank to build support to ensure that corporate special interests like Chase pay their fair share in taxes.The morning action was just one of more than 100 events in a national day of action urging Congress to avert the $85 billion in arbitrary, across-the-board sequestration cuts in everything from mental health services to public safety scheduled to take effect March 1.
Small Business Owners Oppose Cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid

A new poll from Small Business Majority shows that small business owners oppose suggested benefit cuts to social safety net lifelines. The poll shows that 80% oppose cuts to Social Security, while nearly 75% oppose cuts to Medicare and about 66% oppose cuts to Medicaid.
Work Harder, Make Less: 40% Earn Less Than 1968 Minimum Wage

At one time it was an economic tenet for America's worker: Work smarter, better, faster and harder and you’ll reap the rewards. That’s exactly what America's workers have done for the past four decades plus. But while worker productivity has soared, workers’ wages have been tightly tethered to the ground. So much that economist Dean Baker writes:If the minimum wage had risen in step with productivity growth [since 1968], it would be over $16.50 an hour today. That is higher than the hourly wages earned by 40 percent of men and half of women. 
Who Has Leverage in the Sequester Fight?

Back in January, House Speaker John Boehner was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article claiming Republicans have leverage in the fiscal showdown fight because they're willing to use sequester cuts to extract massive concessions in the form of cuts to vital lifelines, including Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.