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Dallas Labor is Hub of Progressive Movement

Strategic plans to advance working families were made at the January AFL-CIO Central Labor Council meeting on January 17.

Stop the Shutdown

Dallas Labor is Hub of Progressive Movement

A Manufactured Crisis

Eight hundred thousand workers. That is the number of government employees and contractors impacted by President Trump’s shutdown of the federal government.

A Manufactured Crisis

‘Pay the Workers, Furlough Trump’: Federal Workers Rally for End to Shutdown

Furloughed federal employees and out-of-work contractors greeted one another Thursday with a sarcastic nickname that, on the 20th day of a partial government shutdown, captured their feeling of powerlessness: “Hello, fellow pawns.”

‘Pay the Workers, Furlough Trump’: Federal Workers Rally for End to Shutdown

Dallas Labor Fights the Shutdown

Government employees asked the Dallas AFL-CIO for help with the first anti-shutdown rally in Texas, and they got it! Jeanne Schulze, President of AFGE Local 1003, and Mark York, principal officer of Dallas AFL-CIO put together a dramatic public rally downtown on January 10.

Dallas Labor Fights the Shutdown

Dallas Labor Rallies for Jobs

Mark York of the Dallas AFL-CIO encourages turnout to end the government shutdown and to save local jobs. Important Dallas rallies take place Tuesday, January 8, and Thursday, January 10.

Dallas Labor Rallies for Jobs