Virginia

Virginia labor: Turnout key to preventing a right-wing gubernatorial victory

October 20, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg And Emile Schepers

Despite recent efforts to hide his true colors, Republican Youngkin is a Trump loyalist who can be expected, if elected, to advance a right-wing extremist agenda.

Virginia: Campaign to repeal ‘Right to Work’ law

January 19, 2021 By Emile Schepers

For the third consecutive year, labor and allies in Virginia are preparing for a fight to remove the state’s “Right to Work” law from the statute books.

Elections past and elections yet to come in Virginia

November 30, 2020 By Emile Schepers

Biden carried the urban and suburban areas in Virginia with Trump prevailing in the rural areas.

Lots of legislative work to do yet for workers in Virginia

March 10, 2020 By Emile Schepers

On Sunday March 8, the first 2020 session of the Virginia General Assembly (state legislature) wound up, leaving only some budgetary matters for action this week.

Virginia passes the Equal Rights Amendment, but the struggle continues

January 21, 2020 By Emile Schepers

January 15, 2020, was a historic day in America: Both houses of the Virginia General Assembly approved the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Virginia was the 38th state to do so. This puts the ERA over the...