AFL-CIO, Several Unions Send Volunteers to Puerto Rico

05 Oct, 2017

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05 Oct, 2017

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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

Students Work Together to Create Change at Nike

29 Sep, 2017

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29 Sep, 2017

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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

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

27 Sep, 2017

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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

RICK LEVY IS NEXT TEXAS AFL-CIO PRESIDENT. MONTSERRAT GARIBAY CHOSEN SECRETARY-TREASURER.

RICK LEVY IS NEXT TEXAS AFL-CIO PRESIDENT. MONTSERRAT GARIBAY CHOSEN SECRETARY-TREASURER.

26 Sep, 2017

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RICK LEVY IS NEXT TEXAS AFL-CIO PRESIDENT. MONTSERRAT GARIBAY CHOSEN SECRETARY-TREASURER.

  Rick Levy, a former General Counsel of the Texas AFL-CIO who became Secretary-Treasurer two years ago, has been named the next President of the Texas AFL-CIO. Levy will succeed John Patrick, who is retiring.

RICK LEVY IS NEXT TEXAS AFL-CIO PRESIDENT. MONTSERRAT GARIBAY CHOSEN SECRETARY-TREASURER.

A Radical Republican Proposal To Roll Back Worker Protections

20 Sep, 2017

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20 Sep, 2017

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A Radical Republican Proposal To Roll Back Worker Protections

Last week, the Republican-led House Committee on Education and the Workforce held a hearing on H.R. 3441, the so-called Save Local Business Act -- a bill that has almost nothing to do with saving small and local businesses.

A Radical Republican Proposal To Roll Back Worker Protections

Labor Unions Are Stepping Up To Fight Deportations

14 Sep, 2017

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14 Sep, 2017

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Labor Unions Are Stepping Up To Fight Deportations

Yahaira Burgos was fearing the worst when her husband, Juan Vivares, reported to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in lower Manhattan in March. Vivares, who fled Colombia and entered the U.S. illegally in 2011, had recently been given a deportation order.

Labor Unions Are Stepping Up To Fight Deportations