Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said this week that workers in the United States apparently don't want to join unions because of the "very enlightened management in this country now, treating employees better and employees have decided they don't want to pay the dues."

McConnell, R-Ky., husband of the most...

People who pay a premium for socially responsible products aren't exactly thrilled to learn they're enriching someone who is wildly, flagrantly irresponsible about social issues.

Whole Foods found that out last week after the Wall Street Journal published its CEO's op-ed opposing President Obama's health care reform. Their customers...

FedEx CEO Fred Smith is always full of surprises. First, he threatened to pull his Boeing contract if Congress passes a provision of the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization that would place FedEx workers under the NLRA, the statute that protects virtually all other private sector workers. Now his top flack...

A corporate front group that's trying to defeat the Employee Free Choice Act is now using a Memorial Day message against the bill. The anti-union group, called the Workplace Fairness Institute, put out a radio actuality implying that unions would take away rights for which veterans fought.

Try to...

Labor Secretary Elaine Chao's Jan. 14 Wall Street Journal op-ed ranks among the most preposterous distortions of reality ever to appear on that newspaper's editorial pages -- and that's tough to do.

In it, Chao claimed the Bush Administration wanted to protect workers and their jobs. "Our record speaks for...

The proud daughter of a Teamster took a big step on Friday toward becoming President Obama's secretary of Labor. California Congresswoman Hilda Solis testified before the Senate committee that will vote on whether she should head the Labor Department.

Solis promised that she would work hard every day to...

There is work to do in America, and Americans who need work.

President-elect Barack Obama wants to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to rebuild this country's neglected infrastructure. He's right. It's really a no-brainer.

We bailed out the banks. We can certainly repave Main Street -- and...

I've spent the last several weeks on the ground talking to Teamster members about the importance of this election. From Billings, Montana to Dayton, Ohio to Bristol, Pennsylvania, I've had thousands of conversations with the men and women who make this country run -- the true foundation of our great...

The former Navy pilot must have lost his nerve somewhere along the line.

John McCain says he won't debate Barack Obama Friday night because he has to go to Washington to fix the economic crisis.

But before he actually flew in to supposedly save the economy, he gave a...

John McCain told a real howler on Tuesday when he said American workers are the 'fundamental strength of the U.S. economy."

This is the same John McCain who's been kicking the crap out of American workers for the last 26 years. He voted to cut overtime. He voted against...

Fear is a fantastic motivator.

It has been used by the likes of Ghengis Khan, Vlad the Impaler and Adolf Hitler.

And now, it's being used by Wal-Mart.

In an effort to push their pro-Republican, anti-worker agenda, the corporate behemoth has begun herding their employees into mandatory meetings where the...

When the president does it, it's not illegal. That was an outrageous statement made more than 30 years ago by President Richard Nixon.

Forever immortalized in a TV interview with TV personality David Frost, Nixon's words captured the cowardice of a man unable to stand up to his own actions...

After eight years we shouldn't be surprised -- but just when you thought it couldn't get worse, President Bush does it again. He's going to the Olympics so he doesn't offend the Chinese people.

Forget about the Communist regime's crackdown on human rights and labor activists -- he's ready and...

John McCain is going to talk about trade this week, just not in the United States, and not to U.S. workers. For some reason, McCain thinks Colombia is the best place to discuss this issue.

If McCain wants to know how the trade programs he has championed for the past...

You can practically smell the change in the air these days.

Take trade, for example. For the past 15 years, American workers watched helplessly as millions of their jobs moved overseas.

But it's 2008 now. And Congress is looking at a new trade proposal: the TRADE Act.

The last time voters had a chance to send the country in a new direction it didn't work out so well. With the economy in shambles, a continuing jobs exodus and a president who remains shamelessly ignorant to the woes of working families, George Bush led us down the wrong...

Here's yet another reason Americans should be furious at the Bush administration: spending taxpayer dollars without constitutional authority.

Late last year, lawmakers passed the omnibus budget. President Bush signed it into law on Dec. 26. The law prohibited spending on a Transportation Department pilot program to open the borders...

George Washington, protectionist, made it a point to wear an American-made suit to his first inauguration.

The father of our country understood that America has to protect its ability to make things important to Americans. Today that means things like steel. Brake drums. Airplane parts. Computer chips. Battleships. Safe...

Mary Peters, who pushes tirelessly to let dangerous Mexican trucks use U.S. highways, for the first time publicly stood near a Mexican truck on Wednesday.

Peters is the little-known Arizonan who now runs the U.S. Department of Transportation. She usually avoids the news media like a bad rash whenever...

If Richard Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre undermined democracy, so do George Bush's Friday Night Document Dumps.

Nixon's Watergate-era firing of special prosecutor Archibald Cox and the resignations of his attorney general and deputy was viewed as a gross abuse of presidential power.

Bush habitually makes controversial announcements on...