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By a thousand cuts, Trump trying to exterminate unions
September 4, 2020Even as the coronavirus pandemic makes them more urgent, Trump is dismantling protection on the job by weakening the NLRB.
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Biden’s platform for workers: Labor law-breakers to jail
September 4, 2020Biden-Harris team also call for $15 federal minimum wage and equal pay for equal work, and repeal of right to work for less.
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American Federation of Teachers endorses Green New Deal
September 1, 2020The union is now one of four national unions that have endorsed the GND.
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India’s workers desperate after right-wing government’s promised COVID aid never came
August 28, 2020The state governments condescended to a sporadic dole of a few kilograms of rice and some vegetables each week, a starvation diet. Cash grants never came. Farm implements were promised, but never materialized.
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‘Building the American Dream’: A Texas wage-theft and heat-stroke nightmare
August 28, 2020Texas Governor Greg Abbott has called his state’s recent building boom “The Texas Miracle.” But the workers who have actually done the building often find themselves engaged in a nightmare!
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