The union movement and our allies are taking our fight for good jobs now to the biggest Wall Street banks whose reckless greed has gone a long way to wreck the U.S. economy and kill American jobs. From March 15-26, working people will hold rallies and demonstrations at branches of the Big Six Wall Street banks—Bank of America, Chase, Citigroup, Wachovia-Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley—across the country. They will tell the banks “We Are Not Your ATMs” and “Make Wall Street Pay for Creating New Jobs.” Read More>>

Thousands of union members, community activists, religious leaders and others turned out in Washington, D.C., today to confront Big Insurance and demand insurance companies stop plotting to kill health care reform even as Congress debates bills to reform the nation’s broken health care system. Read More>>

The AFL-CIO is calling for the United States and the entire international community, including the global union movement, to “do our utmost to aid our Haitian sisters and brothers in their moment of extraordinary need.” Unions are mobilizing their members to provide aid in Haiti and through donations. Here's how you can assist Haitians.

We recommend the following organizations for donating to Haiti:

• The AFL-CIO Solidarity Center’s Earthquake Relief for Haitian Workers’ Campaign
• Partners in Health
• Doctors Without Borders
• American Red Cross International Response Fund
• United Way Worldwide Disaster Fund

Volunteer

If you or someone you know is a registered nurse, the National Nurses Union is coordinating volunteers to go to Haiti. Contact the RN Response Network: www.NationalNursesUnited.org.

Those interested in providing volunteer assistance should contact the Center for International Disaster Information, at http://www.cidi.org.

Support Federal Correctional Officers, Sign the Petition!

Correctional Officer Jose Rivera was stabbed to death in a federal prison in Atwater, California in June, 2008, while locking inmates into their cells by himself. He should not have been alone. But in the understaffed Bureau of Prisons, where correctional officers are often outnumbered by inmates by 150 -1, prison violence is rising at an alarming rate. On April 23 of this year, an officer at a prison in Terra Haute, Indiana was stabbed seven times by an inmate. A week later in Tucson, Arizona, another officer was attacked. Similar incidents are now reported regularly system-wide.

The repeated refusal of the Bureau of Prisons management to address understaffing and underfunding within the system threatens the safety of correctional officers, inmates and our communities.

Sign the online petition and pass the link to your friends.