unions
NAFTA old and new — deals by the rich for the rich
June 20, 2019One percenters like Mick Mulvaney, self-dealing corporate honchos and fancy-pants corporate lobbyists negotiated the deals. Those fat cats claimed they spoke for labor. But when they opened their mouths, only the word profit emerged.
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Steelworkers organizer comes up with great anti-New NAFTA line
June 20, 2019“If ya can’t enforce it, why are ya gonna pass it?” she asks
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Democratic money bill halts Trump rollback of OSHA beryllium rule
June 19, 2019The bill, with spending for the Departments of Labor, Education, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Defense and other agencies, is what’s called “a minibus,” where six individual spending bills were combined.
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Autoworkers narrowly lose again at Chattanooga Volkswagen plant
June 18, 2019Over a period of nine weeks, Volkswagen was able to break the will of enough workers to destroy their majority.
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Airline food service workers voting on strike authorization
June 14, 2019“The health coverage my job provides is frightening. I can’t afford to get sick."
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