WGA East
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is lending support to efforts by the Writers Guild of America East to pressure reality TV producer Atlas Media to provide healthcare coverage to guild-covered writers and producers. Trumka spoke at a guild rally ...

York City
This week's reports from the New York Times about Walmart's practices in Mexico are breathtaking. The Times found "credible evidence that bribery played a persistent and significant role in Walmart's rapid growth in Mexico." The Times interviewed an ...

Travel Channel
Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--April 27, 2012. On Workers Memorial Day, we come together to recognize the value of every life and the fundamental dignity of every person. From working in Pennsylvanias coal mines just as my father did before me, and his ...

Atlas Media
Richard Trumka, President, AFL-CIO On Workers Memorial Day, we come together to recognize the value of every life and the fundamental dignity of every person. From working in Pennsylvanias coal mines just as my father did before me ...

Itv Studios
Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--May 1, 2012. Today, working people from around the United States and the world are coming together to commemorate May Day. The message is the same everywhere: Workers rights should be universal and every person no matter ...

Lowell Peterson
Back in January of last year, I reported on victories in union elections at two companies that produce popular nonfiction TV shows. Freelance producers at ITV Studios and Atlas Media voted to join the Writers Guild of America, East, proving that ...

Trumka pushes WGA East healthcare: Negotiations with Atlas Media began in August
The AFL-CIO, the nations largest labor federation, may deploy as many as 400,000 volunteers this year in its effort to re-elect Barack Obama, who President Richard Trumka said helped save tens of thousands of U.S. jobs. The volunteers, accounting for about 3 percent of the 12 million members in

Is Walmart Too Big, Powerful, Influential to Obey the Law?
Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--May 1, 2012. Today, working people from around the United States and the world are coming together to commemorate May Day. The message is the same everywhere: Workers rights should be universal and every person no matter what nationality, ethnicity or gender must

Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka On Workers Memorial Day
The company makes beaucoups of money, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka says, but abuses its writers and producers by denying them overtime and health insurance. In ancient Greece, Atlas held up the world, but in modern-day New York, the WGA East says ...

Statements about Workers Memorial Day
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is lending support to efforts by the Writers Guild of America East to pressure reality TV producer Atlas Media to provide healthcare coverage to guild-covered writers and producers. Trumka spoke at a guild rally Friday at Atlas's midtown Manhattan offices. The WGA