legislation
Trumka rips Senate GOP and its leader, McConnell
July 9, 2020AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has had it up to here with the U.S. Senate’s ruling Republicans and specifically with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
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House OKs anti-redlining bill, 230-178
June 30, 2020GOP President Donald Trump’s regime wants to let banks redline communities of color. The Democratic-run U.S. House doesn’t.
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Class conflict rages in the fight over next stimulus bill
May 11, 2020Trump and the 1 percent seek billions more for big business while workers and their allies push for a bill that will strengthen economic and political democracy.
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House to vote on sweeping labor law reform by mid-February
January 14, 2020The Democratic-run U.S. House will vote on the Protect the Right to Organize (Pro) Act, the most-comprehensive pro-worker labor law reform bill in decades.
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Labor’s problem: Overcoming Mitch McConnell’s blockade
August 14, 2019McConnell, the Republican from Kentucky, has decreed that virtually every piece of legislation the House has sent or will send is (a) “Socialist” and (b) dead on arrival.
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