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Union reps push tough, enforceable labor standards for ‘New NAFTA’ at panel session
July 5, 2017The current NAFTA “has provided tremendous benefits to CEOs and wealthy corporations, but has not benefited working people.”
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Indigenous Oaxacan farm workers win themselves a union in the Pacific Northwest
June 28, 2017”That’s the priority-to raise our living standards. We know the contract will change our lives. Now, if we make a little more, our children will have other possibilities."
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Republicans squabble over prevailing wage law
June 28, 2017“If all 25 states with prevailing wage laws today weakened or outright repealed their statutes, an additional 99,000 blue-collar construction workers would see their incomes fall below the poverty level," said the National Association of Building...
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Nurses’ union blasts Calif. lawmakers for dropping single payer health care bill
June 28, 2017The Golden State houses one of every eight people in the U.S., and the measure would have covered all of them.
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Even one unpaid sick day puts workers’ economic security at risk
June 28, 2017“Greater access to paid sick days would give American working families more economic security."
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