workers rights
Unions: Workers will remember Trump tax deal in November
December 26, 2017The union leaders added it would throw 13 million people off health insurance by 2025, and raise premiums by 10 percent yearly for everyone else, due to a key provision yanking money from the Affordable Care...
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New NLRB General Counsel seeks reversal of all pro-worker rulings
December 8, 2017No sooner did he enter office than Robb sent out a memo freezing enforcement actions and indicating he wants to roll back dozens of prior pro-worker rulings.
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Union leaders blast Janus case as effort to rig economy against workers
September 29, 2017WASHINGTON—Union leaders denounced the latest right-wing attempt to deprive workers and unions of money—via a Supreme Court case the justices have agreed to hear—as “a blatant attack to rig the economy against workers,” as Laborers President...
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“New NAFTA”: Canada demands end to U.S. “right-to-work” laws
September 13, 2017Prodded by Unifor, Canada’s largest private sector union, the government demands any new trade deal force the U.S. to eliminate “right-to-work” laws.
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After nine years, arbitrators bounce AFL-CIO complaint on Guatemala labor conditions
June 30, 2017“This decision drives home the fact that U.S. trade deals do not protect workers. In truth, this failure is by design.”
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