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Dallas Labor Picks Best Candidates for Working Families

Dallas Labor Picks Best Candidates for Working Families

After a scrupulous screening process, the Dallas AFL-CIO selected these candidates:

Dallas Mayor: Scott Griggs

Council District 1: Chad West

Council District 2: Adam Medrano

Dallas Labor Picks Best Candidates for Working Families

Trump Is Scaling Back Obama's Expansion of Overtime Pay

A four-year fight to expand overtime pay to millions of workers may soon be over. About 1.2 million workers will win and 2.8 million will lose.

Trump Is Scaling Back Obama's Expansion of Overtime Pay

Dallas Labor Planning Action

The Dallas AFL-CIO Council will hold its regularly scheduled meeting Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. in the CWA Hall, 1408 N. Washington. We are fighting for everybody, and good fighting takes planning.

Dallas Labor Planning Action

School Employees Show the Secret to Success

School employees are winning labor fights all across the country. That’s why I was proud to participate with them in the Texas “March on the Capitol” March 11, 2019. I had only recently figured out why school employees are winning when most of the labor movement is struggling.

School Employees Show the Secret to Success

AFL-CIO Leaders Say Unions Have a Role In Saving the Country

In speeches and in press releases over the last year, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has pointed out that unions are uniquely qualified by their very nature to lead the country out of what he has called a “dark period,” a time when hateful speech and vitriol emanate from the White House and are

AFL-CIO Leaders Say Unions Have a Role In Saving the Country