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In the words of AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler, “The state of our unions is battle ready!”

Fires are raging everywhere in California these days, and firefighters are having enormous trouble keeping up. Chronically understaffed local fire departments simply don’t have the resources to handle Act #1 of what climate change has in store for us.

National Nurses United, the activist and progressive nurses union that was the first to endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders’s 4 years ago, did it again.
Staff members at the Southern Poverty Law Center have formally filed election authorization cards to unionize.

In the first use of a 61-year-old Supreme Court decision, the Machinists (IAM) sued the National Labor Relations Board for throwing out their union recognition election win among 178 Boeing flight tech workers in North Charleston, South Carolina.

Murray Energy Corp., the largest private coal mining company in the United States, filed for bankruptcy.