Labor
Illinois may vote on state constitutional ban on ‘right-to-work’
March 9, 2020“Right to work” laws let free riders use union services and protections, which cost money, without paying one red cent for them.
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Safeway workers in San Jose, Calif., rally for fair contract
March 6, 2020These grocery store workers have been working without a new contract for 16 months.
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Rail unionists, passengers, lawmakers blast Amtrak outsourcing
March 5, 2020Various right-wingers want to close down Amtrak’s national network, leaving only the profitable Northeast Corridor, which would then be privatized.
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Organized labor and politics down south: Conversation with a rank-and-filer
March 4, 2020Governing elites in the southern U.S. have been passionately anti-union pretty much since we stopped being a British colony.
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SEIU to spend $150 million in key states to defeat Trump
February 28, 2020The Service Employees have launched a $150 million political registration and organizing drive, from now through November’s election, to mobilize hundreds of thousands of new voters.
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