West Virginia AFL-CIO

On August 12, 1997, the contentious Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel strike came to an end. The United Steelworkers of America’s 10-month work stoppage was the…

West Virginia gubernatorial hopeful Ben Salango, a Democrat, joined members of the state’s American Federation of Teachers and AFL-CIO chapters Monday to…

Miles Stanley was born in Dunbar on October 2, 1924. Before his untimely death at age 49, he would become one of West Virginia’s most important labor…

On West Virginia Morning, host Beth Vorhees talks politics with Kenny Perdue who is retiring as President of the West Virginia AFL-CIO at the end of the…

West Virginia AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Josh Sword has been appointed to fill the unexpired term of President Kenny Perdue, who is retiring at the end…

The head of West Virginia's largest workers union is retiring after more than a decade of service. West Virginia AFL-CIO President Kenny Perdue announced…

A union challenge of West Virginia's new "right-to-work" law is slated for a court hearing.A West Virginia AFL-CIO news release says the hearing will take…

On the first day of the 2016 legislative session, hundreds of union workers packed the upper rotunda to make their position clear to legislators they…

Representatives of mine and labor unions are expressing their disappointment of Governor Tomblin's signing of Senate Bill 357, the Coal Jobs and Safety…

The chair of the Senate Committee on Labor pulled a bill from the committee's agenda Tuesday, Senate Bill 245, a bill that aims to repeal the state's…