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Trumka proposes universal federal jobs payments
May 11, 2020Trumka proposed the federal government guarantee paid employment – by actually shelling out the money – for all workers.
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Unions, Dems resist GOP attempt to starve states and localities
May 8, 2020A big battle is shaping up, which affects not just two million workers and their families, but everyone else in the U.S.
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Tenants of big landlords striking nationwide on May Day
April 30, 2020The landlords being targeted are the big hedge funds realty firms that own or fund tens of thousands of units nationwide – and that so far seem to have turned a deaf ear to their tenants’...
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‘Economic remedy for a post-pandemic economy: Unions.’
April 27, 2020A cartoon from Greg Kearney.
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Veterans face trouble as VA facilities struggle to cope with coronavirus
April 24, 20201,900 VA health care workers who have become sick with the coronavirus. Twenty have died. Another 3,600 of the 300,000-plus VA health care employees are quarantined and unable to work because they have been exposed to...
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