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Two Teamsters among dead in Vegas shooting
October 4, 2017“Nevada is our home and we will not live in fear. Workers serve our country and our community every day."
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Labor movement begins to reassess its approach to Cuba relations
October 3, 2017The Washington State Labor Council of the AFL-CIO called for an end to the U.S. economic blockade and travel restrictions on that country.
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AFL-CIO, several unions send volunteers to Puerto Rico
October 3, 2017Some 275 volunteers – pilots, mechanics, flight attendants, and others – will take off on a union-sponsored relief mission to hurricane-smashed Puerto Rico.
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Justices wrestle with mandatory arbitration vs. labor law
October 3, 2017When a company forces a worker into mandatory arbitration of everything from unsafe working conditions to unpaid overtime, does that trump the worker’s rights under federal labor law?
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Working class tax cut? Nothing of the sort
October 3, 2017Any claim that Republicans were ever genuinely planning a “middle-class tax cut” should be thoroughly dismissed.
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