More than 800 workers and political leaders came out for the Labor Day BBQ. Headlined by Jerry Brown, Barbara Boxer, Barbara Lee and Jerry McNerney, we launched our 1 HOUR FOR POWER campaign to take the November election. We need to ensure we elect candidates who champion working families, and to that end, we are calling on all 100,000 union members in Alameda County to volunteer 1 hour towards political activism. Click headline for more info

After standing up for better working conditions in a 5-day strike, Piedmont Gardens resident facility for seniors illegally fired 38 skilled workers who collectively have over 400 years of experience providing care at Piedmont Gardens. Click headline to read a letter from two of the workers

In a Labor Day address to more than 10,000 union members and their families in Milwaukee, President Obama announced a massive new job-creating road, rail, runway and air traffic control rebuilding project. Speaking to the Milwaukee Area Labor Council’s annual LaborFest celebration, Obama said it was “the great American middle class that made our economy the envy of the world. It’s got to be that way again.” Click the headline to read more>>

As part of the Nurses' Dog Meg Whitman Campaign, the CNA led a march on Women's Suffrage Day with hundreds of teachers, firefighters, iron workers, longshoremen, clerical workers, bus drivers, and other service workers. Billionaire Whitman's rarely voted in three decades, but now she wants our vote! We need to ensure California reflects OUR values not corporate values. Click headline for more info.

The State of California and partner organizations provide a range of services to help people who have exhausted - or may soon exhaust - unemployment insurance. Unemployed individuals may qualify for assistance to meet basic needs as well as health care, counseling, employment and training. In parts of CA, call 2-1-1 to learn about resources in your community. Click headline for more info

The U.S. jobless rate worsened to 9.6 percent in August from 9.5 percent in July, with 54,000 jobs lost, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data out today. The private sector created only 67,000 jobs in August, far below the 150,000 jobs a month needed to keep up with the population and extremely far below the hundreds of thousands of new jobs needed each month to return to pre-recession employment levels. Government employment fell by 121,000, largely reflecting the loss of 114,000 temporary workers hired for U.S. Census 2010. Click the headline to read more>>