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Port of Oakland approves “groundbreaking” Good Jobs Policy for new warehousing complex
November 14, 2017“We need good jobs and healthy communities … communities of color are often at the center of both economic and environmental injustice."
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Election Day 2017: Progressives rack up wins from coast to coast
November 8, 2017The wave of activism that has produced mass marches and protests against Trump-GOP schemes led to a massive influx of new progressive Democratic candidates, mostly female.
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Top union leader says hitting the streets will save democracy
November 8, 2017NEA Vice President Becky Pringle, is challenging the nation’s progressives to hit the streets for democracy. She opened her address to Common Cause’s Blueprint for a Great Democracy conference by quoting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....
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Labor ramps up campaign against Trump tax cut for the rich
November 8, 2017Led by the AFL-CIO, more unions are speaking out against the Republicans’ tax cut for the rich, saying the middle class – and union members – will wind up footing the bill.
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Minneapolis unions’ commission on racial, economic justice develops work model
November 6, 2017The commission is an initiative of the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation and its People of Color Union Members caucus (POCUM). The project grew out of a 2016 visit by national AFL-CIO leaders who were on a...
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