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How the Coronavirus Pandemic May Be Causing Support of Labor Unions to Rise

29 Jan, 2021

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29 Jan, 2021

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How the Coronavirus Pandemic May Be Causing Support of Labor Unions to Rise

“This pandemic has amplified [public support] even more. It showed how helpless workers are without a union. They couldn’t even get PPE and unions were able to get it for them,” says Trumka. “For years and years and years, people that we call ‘essential workers’ were invisible.

How the Coronavirus Pandemic May Be Causing Support of Labor Unions to Rise

Biden Moves Quickly to Show Union Workers That Democrats Care

29 Jan, 2021

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29 Jan, 2021

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Biden Moves Quickly to Show Union Workers That Democrats Care

Major labor leaders like Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, are more optimistic about the prospects for organized labor than they’ve been in many years. “I know what he is.

Biden Moves Quickly to Show Union Workers That Democrats Care

UWUA Family Member Pursuing Master of Public Health; Union Plus Scholarship Deadline This Weekend

28 Jan, 2021

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28 Jan, 2021

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UWUA Family Member Pursuing Master of Public Health; Union Plus Scholarship Deadline This Weekend

The 2021 Union Plus Scholarship application deadline is this Sunday, Jan. 31.

UWUA Family Member Pursuing Master of Public Health; Union Plus Scholarship Deadline This Weekend

Report: Activision Blizzard Calls Policy To Make Hiring More Diverse ‘Unworkable’

27 Jan, 2021

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27 Jan, 2021

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Report: Activision Blizzard Calls Policy To Make Hiring More Diverse ‘Unworkable’

According to AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler, its Rooney Rule proposal is “clearly workable” as evidenced by other big companies that have adopted similar policies.

Report: Activision Blizzard Calls Policy To Make Hiring More Diverse ‘Unworkable’

What Biden and Congress can do to support unions

26 Jan, 2021

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26 Jan, 2021

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What Biden and Congress can do to support unions

In the last Congress, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the US House of Representatives passed the most significant worker empowerment legislation since the Great Depression by creating a much fairer process for forming a union. It is called the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, or PRO Act.

What Biden and Congress can do to support unions