Labor Union Blog

Workers mobilized around the country to build support for the Employee Choice Act. It paid off in March when the House approved the legislation to restore workers' freedom to form unions.

From a brand new Congress taking the reins on Capitol Hill in January to the AFL-CIO's first-ever global organizing conference in December, working families have seen some significant victories, unfortunate setbacks and a lot of unfinished business this year. We take a look back at 2007 in a series of posts starting today with a quick glance at top items from January through March.

January

* As the battle to win congressional passage of the Employee Free Chance Act heated up, a new study showed one in five union organizers or activists are illegally fired for trying to bring a union into the workplace.