U.S.
AFL-CIO launches study of state of work and of unions
May 4, 2018The AFL-CIO says workers are buffeted by automation, globalization, and robotics, which threaten high joblessness.
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New Poor Peoples Campaign to kick off with D.C. rally
May 2, 2018“People should not live in or die from poverty in the richest nation ever to exist."
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Bring back May Day
April 30, 2018American politicians backed by billionaires don’t recognize May Day, but the Poor People's Campaign is bringing it back with a week of events around the country.
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AFL-CIO: Trump-style job safety deregulation is killing workers
April 27, 2018Richard Trumka: “If 150 workers died every day from terrorism, there would be a hue and cry.”
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Montgomery, Alabama: New lynching memorial evokes terror of victims
April 26, 2018The museum explores the eras of enslavement, lynching, Jim Crow to mass incarceration and modern criminal justice issues that are the focus of the Equal Justice Initiative's legal work. Several of the organization's clients are featured,...
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