Unions Hope Democrats Will Counter GOP Policy Changes
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As a member of the Democratic minority, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (Md.) fought a Bush administration policy that increasingly opened up federal jobs to private contracting.
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Democratic leaders in Congress have decided to shift course and pursue modest bipartisan measures to alter U.S. military strategy in Iraq, hoping to use incremental changes instead of aggressive legislation to break the grip Republicans have held over the direction of war policy.
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Democrats escalated attacks on the National Labor Relations Board at a congressional hearing yesterday, accusing the panel's Republican majority of turning the nation's labor laws "inside out" by making it harder for workers to form unions.
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Supporters of House majority leader Tom DeLay proposed a Republican rules change yesterday that would protect the Texan&#39;s leadership position
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One of the most influential unions in politics is giving Democrats running for president the once over.
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Congressional Democrats on Monday dropped their demand for union bargaining rights for airport screeners, hoping to revive anti-terrorism legislation that had stalled because of a presidential veto threat.
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As Republican candidates are avoiding President Bush, Democrats are invoking his image to call for change.
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The Democratsâ proposed minimum wage increase does not catch up with what some states have already done to raise the pay of tens of millions of workers.
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Many Democrats, womenÃÂs organizations and liberal groups are gearing up for a fight on another workplace issue: paid sick days.
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Labor legislation that is a priority for Democrats has become the definition of "veto bait" for the White House.
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The national AFL-CIO is warning that it could pull its support for Denver as the site of the 2008 Democratic presidential convention because of a legislative dispute with Colorado Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter Jr.
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The state that was intended to highlight union strength in the Democratic presidential nomination process instead is putting the spotlight on labor's largest fear: Picking the wrong horse.
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The Democratic presidential candidates have moved from the politics of piling on to the politics of unity.
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Senate Democratic leaders who decided to back a Republican resolution against President Bush's Iraq war plan in hopes of winning broad bipartisan support ran into stiff resistance yesterday from an unexpected quarter -- fellow Democrats.
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Leading U.S. Democrats vowed on Sunday a push to revise President George W. Bush's 2002 authorization to wage war in Iraq, as a way to raise pressure for a change in strategy.
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House Democrats led a revolt Thursday against just-implemented interpretations that critics argue could block millions of workers from overtime pay.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is getting the endorsement of two unions, the United Steelworkers and the United Mine Workers of America, on Labor Day.