unions
We’re here, we’re queer, and we’re union
June 28, 2019"You don't look like a union guy." It's a phrase that's been running through my mind all Pride month.
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Pro-worker Dems mistrust Trump, want worker rights written into ‘new NAFTA’
June 26, 2019"Go back to 1992-93, when NAFTA passed,” said Rep. Donald Norcross, D-N.J., an Electrical Worker. NAFTA proponents “promised we’d get more and better-paying jobs, but if you were a worker, you got royally screwed.
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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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