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President Obama and Labor Rights in Mexico
By Richard Trumka President, AFL-CIO As President Barack Obama prepares to travel to Mexico Thursday for a meeting with President Enrique Peña Nieto economic growth, immigration and security policies...
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Mushroom Clouds Over Texas, 500 Deaths in Bangladesh — That’s Why We Need Unions
By Richard (RJ) Eskow Senior Fellow, Campaign for America’s Future News reports tell us that more than 500 people have now died and more than 2,500 were injured in Savar, Bangladesh, while the toll in...
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We Are Worth More
Jack Metzgar Emeritus Professor of Humanities at Roosevelt University in Chicago Last month a few hundred retail and fast-food workers, from places like Sears, Dunkin’ Donuts, and McDonald’s, walked...
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This Week’s Opportunity to Get Our Labor Board Operating Again
By Dave Johnson Fellow, Campaign for America's Future President Obama has nominated five people to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Two are Republicans. All are waiting for confirmation by...
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Labor Wrestles With Its Future
By Harold Meyerson Editor-at-Large, The American Prospect Since the emergence of capitalism, workers seeking higher pay and safer workplaces have banded together in guilds and unions to pressure their...
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Scott Walker’s Austerity Plan: Turning Wisconsin Into the New Greece
By Lee Saunders President, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees When the global financial system came close to collapse a few years back, economists and politicians on the hard...
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New Study Follows the Money from Wages to Corporate Profits
By Mike Hall AFL-CIO Senior Writer The money that hasn’t been going into workers’ paychecks while wages have stagnated for decades has been found. It’s been diverted to corporate profits and, according...
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Union-Made Father’s Day
Jackie Tortora AFL-CIO Blog/Social Media ManagerCelebrate your dad in solidarity style this Father’s Day by getting him a gift that sports the union label. Check out some union-made Father’s Day gift...
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Ohio Union Members Stand with Fired Teacher Carla Hale
Jackie Tortora AFL-CIO Blog/Social Media ManagerIt was her mom’s obituary that got Carla Hale fired. The six words sealed the deal? ”Survived by Carla & her partner.” Hale, who taught physical...
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Made in America: July 4 BBQ Shopping List
By Mike Hall AFL-CIO Senior WriterThis is the weekend many of us will head to the stores to stock up on our July 4 supplies for the summer’s top cookout event. To celebrate the Fourth with a Made in...
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Pittsburgh Apprentices Rescue Seniors from Major Blaze
By Alexander Hogan Communications Specialist, IBEW Media DepartmentCommunity College of Allegheny County instructor Tammy Miller was teaching a class of 24 IBEW members when some of the students...
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Editorial: Confirm NLRB Members to Protect Nurses
Kenneth Quinnell AFL-CIOAn editorial in the South Jersey Times calls on the U.S. Senate to approve President Barack Obama’s nominations to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to ensure nurses at...
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Embracing Moral Mondays 7 Days A Week
By Joanne Boyer Author/editor, Wisdom of Progressive Voices For me, watching Bill Moyers’ PBS Frontline “Two American Families” on July 9 brought me to tears. This was literally my neighborhood. I grew...
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How the GOP Hopes to Take Away Americans’ Right to Collective Bargaining
By Robert Creamer Political organizer, strategist and author The right to collective bargaining in the workplace is a human right — just as fundamental as the right to free speech or the right to vote....
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The State of the Unions
By Harold Meyerson Editor-at-Large, The American Prospect Gallup and Pew concur: Just over one-half of Americans approve of labor unions. In late June, the Pew Research Center released the results of...
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Wooing Boeing: We Don’t Do Better If We All Do Worse
Stan Sorscher Labor Representative, Society for Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace Washington State has a world-class aerospace cluster, employing more than 130,000 people making products...
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Five For the NLRB: A Win For Workers
Terrance Heath Online Producer, Campaign for America’s Future The Senate didn’t quite go nuclear, but it came as close as it has in a long time. Close enough, in fact, to break through some Republican...
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Why the Revival of US Labor Might Start With Non-Union Workers
By Amy B. Dean Fellow, The Century Foundation For workers in America, it can be hard to know where to turn when a boss pays you late or not at all, doesn’t provide benefits, or just yells at you for no...
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Economy of the Squeegee: Carwasheros Organizing Across the Country
By Amy B. Dean Fellow, The Century Foundation In major urban centers, car washing is an industry that relies on full-time labor. Like many other low-wage jobs in the American service economy, the...
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