workers
Obama budget keeps “Cadillac tax” on union health plans
February 11, 2016The Cadillac tax took center stage for union leaders. All - and their members - want it completely repealed. Obama opposes that.
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UAW Prez: Yet another reason to reject the TPP
February 11, 2016"Why can't the United States government guarantee the same thing - labor rights - that we have in Canada?"
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“The Mine Wars”: Turning coal into the diamond of solidarity
February 11, 2016"Coal miners and coal companies in West Virginia clashed in a series of brutal conflicts over labor conditions and unionization."
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Inequality by the numbers
February 11, 2016We Americans like to think of ourselves as a middle-class country where the top is not out of reach and the bottom doesn't pose such a grim, cautionary specter.
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Federal employees’ union demands a real raise
February 10, 2016"We may or may not get the 5.3, but we are putting on the record that we need it," said AFGE President J. David Cox.
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