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Dallas Labor Challenged

"We advocate for the worker nobody wants to build a labor movement everyone wants"

~ Mark York, Dallas AFL-CIO

Dallas Labor Challenged

AFL-CIO, Several Unions Send Volunteers to Puerto Rico

Some 275 volunteers – pilots, mechanics, flight attendants and other workers – took off from Newark International Airport on October 4 on a union-sponsored relief mission to hurricane-smashed Puerto Rico, the AFL-CIO announced.

AFL-CIO, Several Unions Send Volunteers to Puerto Rico

Dallas Labor Opposes Privatization

Privatization Threatens Again

On September 29, Dallas AFL-CIO leaders Mark York and Lorraine Montemayor listened to members of the Dallas County School Board. They said that school transportation services are facing a privatizat

Dallas Labor Opposes Privatization

Students Work Together to Create Change at Nike

In a powerful illustration of the ability of grassroots activists to challenge corporate power, United Students Against Sweatshops, the nation’s leading student organization focused on issues of worker rights and economic justice, has just scored a crucial victory over the world’s biggest s

Students Work Together to Create Change at Nike

A Tax Plan That Works For the People, Not Wall Street

Working people are tired of hearing how tax giveaways for Wall Street billionaires and corporations will supposedly trickle down to the rest of us.

A Tax Plan That Works For the People, Not Wall Street