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Cleanup workers left sick and dying after coal ash spill

August 28, 2019 By Travis Loller

The Tennessee Valley Authority, long respected for providing good jobs and cheap electricity, is facing a growing backlash over its handling of a massive coal ash spill.

CWA: 20,000 forced to strike due to AT&T refusal to bargain

August 27, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

AT&T management’s labor law-breaking forced 20,000 Communications Workers members toiling for AT&T Southeast to strike at midnight on August 23.

Puerto Rican ‘people’s assemblies’ begin to challenge U.S. colonialism

August 27, 2019 By Carol Ramos Widom

After the ousting of a criminally negligent governor, the island readies for a possible encounter with another Hurricane, this one named Dorian.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn pushes effort to topple Britain’s hard-right government

August 27, 2019 By Marcus Barnett

Corbyn says British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is "cozying up to Trump because a no-deal Brexit is really a ‘Trump-deal Brexit’."

UE endorses Sanders, citing his support for workers

August 27, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

Their decision at the convention in Pittsburgh makes the 35,000-member UE, one of the nation’s most-outspoken progressive unions, the second union to issue a presidential endorsement this year.