Labor
Trumka: “President has made this crisis worse”
April 22, 2020“By asking for the economy to be reopened before we have safe workplaces, people are demanding workers lives be put at risk."
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America is about to witness the biggest labor movement it’s seen in decades
April 21, 2020It took 40 years and a pandemic to stir up a worker revolution that’s about to hit corporate America.
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AFGE: Feds fail to protect 290,000 workers from coronavirus
April 21, 2020Some 260,000 workers are in danger at the VA and 30,000 more at the Bureau of Prisons.
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Appelbaum: Poultry plant workers ‘are not expendable’ in coronavirus pandemic
April 20, 2020The nation’s big poultry producers “are getting it wrong” with slow and tardy responses to worker demands for protection from the spreading coronavirus pandemic.
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Transit union leaders: Trump govt. and many systems ignoring danger to workers
April 17, 2020The situation is so bad at the privatized for-profit Hudson-Bergen Light Rail System in Jersey City that workers are ready to walk.
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