News

Hundreds of international trade ministers and corporate lobbyists continue to meet to hammer out an international trade pact that could restrict Internet freedom, encourage U.S. companies to ship even more jobs overseas, reduce access to life-saving medicines, weaken environmental law and kill ?Buy American? policies.

Jobs With Justice ? United Auto Workers ? National Peoples Action ? National Domestic Workers Alliance ? MoveOn.org ? New Organizing Institute ? Movement Strategy Center ? The Other 98% ? Service Employees International Union ? AFL-CIO ? Rebuild the Dream ? Color of Change ? UNITE-HERE ?

The age of inequality has coincided with a dramatic decline in the power of organized labor. Union membership in the United States reached its historic peak in 1979 at about 21 million, representing about 21 percent of the workforce. Today membership stands at about 15 million and represents about 12 percent. When you exclude public-employee unions (more than half of all union members today work not for a private company but for the government), union membership has dropped to about 7 percent of the private-sector workforce.

At meetings of both the Joint Healthcare Committee (JHCC) and the Joint Retiree Healthcare Committee (JRHCC

Express Scripts finalized its merger with Medco Heath Solutions, and they are moving forward together as one company.