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Poor People’s Campaign and progressive allies take fight to Mitch McConnell’s doorstep

September 23, 2020 By Jamal Rich

Activists brought their demands right up to McConnell's Washington and Louisville, Ky. homes with a 'Moral Monday Cavaran.'

After getting government paycheck support, Opera Australia institutes mass layoffs

September 23, 2020 By MEAA

As management slashes jobs, performers and members of the company declare: "No opera without us."

Federal data: One of five workers claiming jobless benefits

September 17, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

The total number and percentage of unemployed, of course, is much higher.

Trudeau parades as workers’ defender, but Canada’s unemployed face ‘disaster capitalism’

September 15, 2020 By Elizabeth Rowley

With a minority government in the midst of a pandemic and the worst economic crisis in a century, the Liberals are vulnerable to pressure from labor and the left.

This Labor Day, numbers tell why we must dump Trump

September 4, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik

Workers are fighting hard across the nation to replace Trump-Pence with Biden-Harris. Here is why.