Press Releases

Today’s report from the Presidential Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment, chaired by Vice President Kamala Harris and co-chaired by Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh, provides a roadmap for federal agencies to leverage the authority of the executive branch in order to build worker power. It delivers a clear message: “At its core, it is our administration’s belief that unions benefit all of us.”

The Philippine government has responded harshly to workers' efforts to organize and collectively bargain by subjecting trade unionists to extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests, intimidation, harassment, and more abuses through a process known as “red-tagging.”

Call center workers at Maximus, a federal contractor that employs one of the largest federally-contracted workforces in the country under a contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), won lower health care costs that will take effect in April.

Genesee Co-op workers’ union win is the latest in a string of successful organizing efforts across industries, including the historic union win for workers at Beneficial State Bank.

On Thursday, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) requested that the Securities and Exchange Commission investigate “inaccurate and misleading disclosures” in filings related to the proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft.