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Some government workers still unpaid, fear another shutdown

February 7, 2019 By Michelle R. Smith

Even as they scramble to catch up on unpaid bills, the prospect of another shutdown looms next week.

Bulldozing butterflies for Trump’s border wall

February 7, 2019 By Lorraine Chow

Construction equipment has arrived to build a border wall through the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas, a protected habitat for more than 200 species of wild butterflies and other unique wildlife.

With Lopez Obrador in, thousands of workers walk out

February 7, 2019 By David Bacon

The election of Andrés Manuel López Obrador as president of Mexico has raised the hopes and expectations of millions of Mexican workers. There could be no better evidence of this than the strike of tens of...

Union leader Shearon on shutdown: No private sector bosses as bad as Trump

February 6, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

Shearon, whose union represents both public and private sector workers – including thousands of federal immigration judges and tens of thousands of Boeing aerospace workers – produced a pungent comparison between Trump’s lockout and lockouts launched...

Donald Trump’s speech goes low, Stacey Abrams’s response goes high

February 6, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

That, in essence, is the contrast between Trump’s 92-minute speech from the U.S. House rostrum and Abrams’s shorter, positive, reply from an Electrical Workers union hall in Atlanta.