WASHINGTON –Chicago Wal-Mart worker Bene’t Holmes intends to tell her story on June 23 to fellow Chicagoan Barack Obama. He won’t like what he hears.

Nancy Pelosi has a message for the Coalition of Labor Union Women, other unionists and women nationwide who want to better themselves economically through federal legislation. “Don’t agonize, organize,” the House Democratic leader from California says. Pelosi issued that demand during an hour-long national conference call with 16,000 people on Jan. 29, discussing the Women’s Economic Agenda first unveiled last […]

PITTSBURGH —The Service Employees and a coalition of women’s rights groups are battling Pittsburgh’s largest employer, the UPMC Hospital System, over the company’s claim that the federal government has no power to audit it for hiring bias. The dispute will play out in federal appeals court in D.C., where UPMC (Univer-sity of Pittsburgh Medical Center) challenged the Labor Department’s authority […]