voting rights

McConnell and GOP hypocritically embrace King while they destroy voting rights

January 19, 2022 By Berry Craig

McConnell and McCarthy—like the other Republicans trying to look like fans of King, are leaders in the GOP’s decades-old effort to roll back voting rights.

With workers’ and voting rights in the balance, labor campaigns against filibuster

January 18, 2022 By Berry Craig

Mitch McConnell and the other heirs of Jim Crow are weakening the foundations of our democracy.

With Senate showdown looming, voting rights tops unions’ MLK commemorations

January 18, 2022 By Mark Gruenberg

Votes are scheduled this week on two bills designed to stop the voter suppression schemes of the Republicans and their corporate puppeteers.

Unions say key now is the fight to pass voting rights bills

January 7, 2022 By Mark Gruenberg

Labor leaders mark Jan. 6 anniversary with a call to push for passage of the voting rights bill in the Senate.

Parade of hurting people prods lawmakers to pass Build Back Better

December 14, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

“The BBB is $170 billion a year,” said veteran Tim Watt of Indianapolis. The military spending bill “is $778 billion, every year.”