Labor
Flight Attendants warn layoffs could end any hope of economic recovery
September 10, 2020Massive layoffs the airlines plan at the end of this month could also result in more pandemic deaths, they say.
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Biden to workers: ‘Wall Street didn’t build this country. You did.’
September 8, 2020Also on Labor Day, Democratic V.P. candidate Kamala Harris meets with Wisconsin workers and family of Jacob Blake.
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Harvard law experts: Coronavirus presents dangers, opportunities for new worker power
September 8, 2020While traditional labor organizing is extremely difficult, inclusion of more-essential-than-ever workers can help grow the labor movement.
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By a thousand cuts, Trump trying to exterminate unions
September 4, 2020Even as the coronavirus pandemic makes them more urgent, Trump is dismantling protection on the job by weakening the NLRB.
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1 of every 5 U.S. workers on jobless benefits, millions likely uncounted
September 3, 2020Who’s getting the aid during the coronavirus-caused depression, and for how long, is highly politicized.
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