U.S.
Sioux Falls Smithfield disaster reflects ongoing national battle
April 23, 2020Local AFL-CIO leader: "We all want to go back to work but to a workplace different from the one we left behind.”
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Progressive economists say unemployment rate now 18% as jobless claims hit 26.5 million
April 23, 2020The Economic Policy Institute calculates the real jobless rate is 18.3%, or one in every 5.5 workers.
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Labor leader says Trump immigration ban “another distraction” from bad coronavirus performance
April 23, 2020Trumka to Trump: "Stop tweeting. Start leading."
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Documenting life under COVID-19: Builders and wreckers
April 22, 2020These are strange times we are living in. And with little else to do, it’s become first-nature to observe, more so than when our days were filled with public distractions.
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Nurses read names of 50 dead colleagues at White House protest
April 22, 2020Those deaths are due to lack of personal protective equipment—and the blame lies squarely on Trump according to National Nurses United.
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