Labor
Teamsters union gives thumbs up to Biden-Harris ticket
August 21, 2020Both Biden and Harris signed the Teamsters' pledge last year promising to back the union’s priorities—pension reform, collective bargaining rights, and fair trade.
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Democratic convention: $4 trillion infrastructure bank would create 25 million jobs
August 21, 2020A National Infrastructure Bank would rebuild the nation’s rusting bridges, roads, and power grid and create 25 million union jobs desperately needed as the nation sinks into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
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Jobless crisis worsens: Army of the unemployed grows by more than 1.7 million
August 20, 2020Close to 56 million now, with no jobs, face a bleak future.
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Nurses united in the fight for a new contract at Connecticut’s Backus Hospital
August 20, 2020Eastern Connecticut’s health care workers and their unions are leading the way to a militant labor movement focusing on workers’ and community needs.
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Unemployment forum: ‘Bosses will throw you away’ when they’re done with you
August 19, 2020Organizing unemployed workers is no easy task, but that’s exactly what some experienced activists came together to strategize for at a forum co-sponsored by People’s World and Organizing Upgrade.
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