After meeting with T-Mobile USA workers in his home state of Connecticut over the weekend, U.S. Sen. Richard  Blumenthal (D) sent a letter to Rene Obermann, CEO of  T-Mobile’s parent Deutsche Telekom, urging the company to respect the rights of T-Mobile workers to make a decision about whether to unionize in an open, free and fair environment.

During yesterday’s Republican-dominated House Education and Workforce hearing on proposed rules changes by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), working men and women packed the hearing. Their message that workers’ right to join  a union should  be protected was repeated by the Democratic members of the committee in sharp questioning of the mostly anti-worker witnesses.

Hundreds of workers took the day off today to stand up for their right to join a union. They packed a House hearing on the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) proposed new rule designed to ensure a fair process for workers who want to vote on whether to form a union.

Support continues to pour in for the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB’s) proposed rule designed to ensure a fair process for workers who want to vote on whether to form a union.

Here are some key reasons the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) should level the playing field when workers are deciding whether to form a union. Employers’ anti-union campaigns begin much earlier than expected and continue all the way up to election. In fact, a new study found that almost half (47 percent) of serious unfair labor practices allegations are reported before a petition is even filed.

This is a cross post from International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) online.

In this interview, Anthony Jones, the resident representative of the ITUC and the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (TUCA) in Haiti, highlights the urgency of placing decent work at the heart of Haiti’s reconstruction program after the devastating earthquakes in January 2010. He also insists on the importance of training to support the Haitian trade union movement.

More than 200 academics and labor activists came together yesterday to discuss strategies for revitalizing the union movement.

There is still time to register for the Great Labor Arts Exchange and Conference on Creative Organizing, June 17–19 at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, Md.

The academic staff at the University of Wisconsin-Superior voted overwhelmingly yesterday for representation by AFT.  This is the first time an academic staff  has voted for a union in Wisconsin’s history and the sixth time university workers have voted for a union since Gov. Scott Walker’s  plan to eliminate public employee collective bargaining was introduced.

When it comes to maintaining and improving its roads, bridges and other transportation facilities, the United States is falling behind even developing nations and Congress is showing no will to address the crisis, according to a report released this week by the Urban Land Institute. Further:

Despite the nation’s unemployment woes, the vast job-creation potential of infrastructure projects is being sidetracked by concerns about government spending appetites and potential cost overruns.