National
Report: Wall Street pressure prompted GM plant closures
March 19, 2019“The entire point of the New Deal reforms was to reverse giant pools of money in unregulated vehicles that don’t comply with a staggering amount of securities rules."
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Labor to oppose rush to enact ‘New NAFTA’
March 18, 2019Trump strong-armed Mexico and Canada into accepting the deal which lacks mechanisms to guarantee worker protections.
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Trump says some anti-Semites are “very nice,” but not Rep. Ilhan Omar
March 8, 2019The controversy surrounding Minnesota’s newly elected Rep. Ilhan Omar has been blown way out of proportion for very specific reasons.
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AFL-CIO, big biz unite to urge Congress to fund infrastructure
March 6, 2019"Public-sector pay, benefits, and labor rights must be protected when special interests push privatization and contracting-out schemes."
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Lawmakers ready to pass sweeping HR-1 reform bill
March 6, 2019House is about to pass the For the People Act, a major election, voting rights, and ethics law reform measure.
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