unions
Labor leaders grapple with how to halt the Trump agenda
March 20, 2017"It was a mistake for the Democrats to not nominate Bernie Sanders, who could bring together not just the left, but the center and even some on the right."
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Teamsters union goes after opioid profiteers
March 16, 2017A small number of drug companies reap windfalls from people's pill addictions. Now, working people are holding them accountable.
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Building trades president expects Trump to keep his word on infrastructure
March 15, 2017McGarvey did not say, however, that all of the tens of thousands of jobs such a program would create would be union jobs.
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Trump plays friend to workers on trade while pursuing privatization
March 13, 2017U.S. unions face a dilemma: how to work with a president who’s avowedly anti-union and yet is pursuing some of their aims, like re-negotiating NAFTA?
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Top AFL-CIO officer: Unions are never backing down on immigrant rights
March 13, 2017"America’s labor movement is never backing down, not an inch, on its commitment to full immigrant rights in this country."
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