Labor
“Medicare for All” plans might become focus of healthcare debate
April 7, 2017“Support for a … ‘socialist’ intervention in health care seems to be growing.”
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California hotel workers celebrate as Emeryville calls for sanctuary workplaces
April 7, 2017Hotel workers and union and community supporters rallied April 4, marking the 10th anniversary of a historic struggle in which hospitality workers – many of them immigrants – won a living wage with workload standards and...
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Trumka to Trump: Which side are you on?
April 5, 2017"Our economy is tilted steeply against working people and in favor of corporations."
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Yale graduate workers vote union
April 4, 2017For over a quarter-century these workers, now members of Local 33 Unite Here, have been organizing for the right to union representation and a voice at work.
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AFL-CIO condemns Trump’s “soft” approach to trade
April 4, 2017“This draft leaves standing the worst and most oppressive parts of NAFTA."
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