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Retirees, unions oppose GOP health care bill

May 17, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg

AARP, the nation’s largest organization of retirees, is already sending out mailers and running broadcast, cable and radio ads against the GOP plan.

The attack on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid is rapid and brutal

May 16, 2017 By Combined Sources

Donald Trump is pursuing the same bogus strategy Republicans did when they tried to create a crisis in the Social Security disability insurance trust fund.

AFL-CIO Report: Santander bank exec looted Puerto Rico’s infrastructure fund

May 16, 2017 By Carolyn Bobb

Labor leaders call on Carlos M. Garcia to resign from the “Junta” or PROMESA Control Board.

North Carolina voter suppression law is dead

May 16, 2017 By Patrick J. Foote

MaryBe McMillan, Secretary Treasurer of the North Carolina AFL-CIO, told People’s World that it was “a good day for voting rights.”

Mexican journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas slain Monday

May 16, 2017 By Committee to Protect Journalists

Valdez was shot and killed today near the offices of Ríodoce, the local weekly he founded in 2003 in Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa state, according to reports.