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Secret White House memo says end pensions and retiree health benefits

January 11, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

And James Sherk, the “labor” advisor for Trump’s Domestic Policy Council, also demands Trump call for enacting pension “reforms” – a code word for cuts – for the nation’s current two million federal workers.

200 million on strike in India; Communist Party leaders detained

January 8, 2019 By Steve Sweeney

It's the largest strike in world history.

Blaming workers for the problems capitalism created

January 8, 2019 By John Russo And Sherry Linkon

They should have planned better, been less demanding, or just been smarter. Workers have heard it all.

Recent court rulings provide mostly positive results for workers – so far

January 4, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

The load, as usual, fell on the federal appeals courts during the last six months of 2018, with mostly positive results for workers so far, a review of rulings shows.

One government worker’s perspective on fighting the Trump shutdown

December 28, 2018 By Lowell B. Denny, III

There is no strengthening of the labor movement to come from calling the switchboard of this White House unless your name is Rush Limbaugh or Anne Coulter.