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AT&T promised jobs with GOP tax cut; now pushing workers toward picket line
April 12, 2018After the GOP tax bill passed, CEO Randall Stephenson promised 7,000 good, skilled, high-wage jobs. But at the bargaining tables, management demands second-tier jobs with second-tier wages and second-tier benefits.
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Labor Notes 2018: More than just unions in the labor movement
April 5, 2018When people hear “labor movement,” they think “unions.” While that is certainly true, the St. Louis Workers' Education Society is coming to a major labor gathering this weekend hosted by a group that is, like the...
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MLK’s economic ‘radicalism’ embraced at massive march and rally in Memphis
April 4, 2018There was a call to register and vote in 2018 to remove the “exploiters” in the White House and the Congress.
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People’s World goes union; editorial staff ratify first contract
April 4, 2018After nearly a century reporting on the labor movement, staff at the socialist publication have just completed their own first collective bargaining agreement.
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Politics, coalition-building take center stage at King commemoration
April 3, 2018“We’ve got a job to do, standing together, organizing, mobilizing and educating our communities, house by house, block by block, street by street."
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