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Unionists link growing usage of mass transit to combating global warming

September 29, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

Increasing people’s usage of mass transit will not only help combat global warming but could produce tens of thousands of good union jobs.

Union leader in Southern California mayor’s race

September 28, 2020 By Janice Rothstein

California’s historically Republican 49th Congressional District has shifted Democratic in recent years.

Trumka: Workers will not tolerate Trump trashing the Constitution

September 25, 2020 By John Wojcik

In a powerful statement, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka reminds the nation that workers and their unions are critical to preserving democracy in America.

Unions praise Ginsburg, demand no replacement till next presidency

September 22, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

They cite passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Law on equal pay for women as proof of her greatness.

United Food and Commercial Workers: OSHA’s Smithfield fine ‘a slap on the wrist’

September 14, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON—The Trump regime’s $13,494 fine against the infamous Smithfield pork production plant in Sioux Falls, S.D.—a plant where company failure to protect workers against the coronavirus infected at least 1,300 of them and endangered the whole...