Solis: We’ll Work Hard to Pass Employee Free Choice Act

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis told the AFL-CIO’s 26 th Constitutional Convention today that she and the Obama administration will join with workers to pass the Employee Free Choice Act. In the first address by a labor secretary to an AFL-CIO convention in more than eight years, Solis, the daughter of union members, said unions are more important than ever in today’s economic crisis: Workers are under assault and they need the voice on the job that unions provide. I believe and I know uni

Diversity Summit: Future of Unions Depends on Including All Workers

UAW Secretary-Treasurer Elizabeth Bunn (center), Nat LaCour, recently retired AFT secretary-treasurer, and AFL-CIO President John Sweeney were among speakers at the AFL-CIO Diversity Conference today. More than 500 participants took part in the standing-room only AFL-CIO Diversity Conference. The future of the union movement depends upon our ability to recruit and promote people of color and women, the fastest growing groups of union members. Today, at the AFL-CI

The Unions of Filmmaking

by Marcy Burlock As you begin your filmmaking career, unions will not really be much of a concern. For the most part, you will do all your hiring of actors and crew members from non-union members. However, after you have successfully completed a couple of films and made some money, you will most certainly need to start hiring union member actors and crew. The list of unions affiliated with this particular industry is long and plentiful and includes local ones. Listed below are just a few of

Unions That Benefit the Filmmaking Industry

by Marcy Burlock As you begin your filmmaking career, unions will not really be much of a concern. For the most part, you will do all your hiring of actors and crew members from non-union members. However, after you have successfully completed a couple of films and made some money, you will most certainly need to start hiring union member actors and crew. There are many unions, even more local ones, ranging from Directors to Projectionists. Here are just a few of the unions you might be face

In an e-mail, Mulgrew introduces his priorities to UFT members

In an e-mail to teachers union members sent Friday afternoon, new UFT president Michael Mulgrew outlined his priorities for the coming year. At the top of his list is dealing with a budget situation that he says is not likely to improve: Huge deficits are again on the horizon, and since education consumes a large chunk of the state and city budgets, it will inevitably be a target of the budget cutters again this year. Our job will be to make the case clearly and compellingly to parents and