Labor unions raise workers' wages, give them a voice on the job and protect them from financial and medical insecurity. They help turn a job into a good job. Good jobs create more jobs. Well-paid, secure workers spend money in their communities. They support local businesses, which can then grow...

Some of the most trusted institutions in the world are finally awakening to the dangers of unrestrained global capitalism.

Unions, of course, have for decades warned about the emerging global order. The reason for integrating regional economies into global networks has always been to shift power away from workers....

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will be among friends today when he testifies before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Nearly half the Republican committee members receive funding from the notorious union-busters, Charles and David Koch. Three of the witnesses -- including Walker --...

Fasten your seatbelts--because Wisconsin was just the beginning! We are ramping up our fight in the war on American workers and the assault on the middle class by taking to the streets in Los Angeles on Saturday.

It's not just about red states and blue states, it's not about...

Dave Hansen is one of the 14 Democratic senators from Wisconsin who courageously left their state in a show of solidarity that has captured the attention of the nation. The senators oppose a budget proposal that, if passed, would end collective bargaining for state employees in Wisconsin.

Dave, a...

The vast, corporate-funded campaign to weaken unions and lower wages of middle-class workers has reached into statehouses all over the country.

Last week in Maine, Rep. Tom Winsor requested that so-called "right-to-work" bills be drafted. So did Sen. Lois Snowe-Mello. In New Hampshire, Rep....

America has been in plenty of tough spots and each time emerged as a stronger nation. We overcame British tyranny, reconciled after the Civil War, vanquished Hitler and rebuilt our economy after the Great Depression.

These are hard times for many Americans, with underemployment at 17 percent and 43...

Millions of traditional American jobs have moved to China, and now China is thwarting our efforts to create new, renewable energy jobs to replace them.

China has a million people working in its clean energy industry. It makes half the world's wind turbines, supplies half the world's hydropower projects...

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), along with the support of more than 50 colleagues in 15 states, are leading the effort to end the third world practices of our nation's ports by introducing the Clean Ports Act of 2010 today.

In today's issue of Politico, Sierra Club Chairman...

Today the Teamsters are launching a campaign to remind the American public that people who drive trucks are not airline pilots.

You'd think we wouldn't need to explain the difference - that truck drivers' cruising level is about four feet off the ground, and pilots don't have to...

Most Americans are profoundly disgusted by Wall Street, but few question the need for a healthy financial sector to promote economic growth. Businesses need credit to prosper, and prosperity is a fundamental goal of our society. That's why our government affords special protections, and guarantees and loans to the financial...

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. government is sending $1.8 billion in stimulus money to overseas wind energy companies. Taxpayers ought to be furious at this revelation -- I certainly am.

That money should be spent to create good jobs in America. I don't care what...

I hate to think we've become a country that has lost the concept of public purpose, a country that allows corporations to poison the people who live nearby, or a country that no longer expects workers to be paid a decent wage for a day's work.

Those are modest...

Wall Street went back to its playbook of financial tricks to manipulate Greece, just like it tried to do with the bondholders of the country's largest trucking company, YRC Worldwide.

When the Teamsters shined a light on bankers selling insurance betting on YRCW's failure, they were...

Nearly one in five Americans who want a full-time job can't find one. That is a serious, serious problem. It's why the blue-collar voters of Massachusetts, who are suffering a 20 percent unemployment rate, sent Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate.

And it's why angry voters will be sending...

President Obama will deliver his State of the Union message to millions of working people who have lost their jobs or their homes or both. It's essential that he show that he has workable solutions to these dire problems that are plaguing so many Americans.

I would emphasize four solutions:...

It's a sad fact of life when today in the United States, a small group of irresponsible investors can wipe out tens of thousands of jobs before the business day is over.

That's what nearly happened to 30,000 Teamsters who work at the country's largest trucking company, YRC Worldwide (YRCW)....

The last thing the American middle class needs right now is a big new tax on health insurance plans.

Many working people are now poorer than they were 10 years ago. Middle-class families earned less in inflation-adjusted dollars than they did in 1999. Homeowner wealth dropped by $11 trillion...

Elizabeth Warren, the chairman of the Congressional Oversight Panel, knows better than anyone what's happened to the bailout money that middle-class taxpayers so generously gave to Wall Street and the automakers.

Warren believes the middle class became the Thanksgiving turkey for the financial elites. Some carved off the bailout...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said this week that workers in the United States apparently don't want to join unions because of the "very enlightened management in this country now, treating employees better and employees have decided they don't want to pay the dues."

McConnell, R-Ky., husband of the most...