unions
AFL-CIO wants workers ‘front and center’ in battling global warming
July 9, 2021AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler says workers, especially union workers, should be “front and center” in the battle to reverse global warming.
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Biden to teachers: ‘You deserve a raise, not just praise’
July 6, 2021The teachers say that the way to strengthen our now-weakened democracy is to construct a good, solid public education system available equally to all.
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Labor, green groups unite to push Jobs Plan and Families Plan
June 30, 2021Congress seems hell-bent on passing a stripped-down version of the Jobs Plan and—thanks to rigid Senate Republican opposition and filibuster threats—doing nothing at all about the Families Plan.
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Trumka: El fallo del Tribunal Superior amenaza el derecho de los trabajadores agrícolas a organizarse
June 25, 2021WASHINGTON — El fallo de 6-3 de la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos, en líneas partidistas, que amenaza el derecho de los trabajadores agrícolas a organizarse en los campos de California, es malo para los...
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Trumka: High Court ruling threatens farm workers’ right to organize
June 25, 2021President of the nation’s largest labor federation notes, however, that the decision of the judges could have been worse
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