Mark Gruenberg
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Labor
Nurses’ campaign for Medicare for All gets boost from Sanders
May 9, 2018More than 150 nurses from around the country, members of National Nurses United, got a big boost for their drive from its prime congressional sponsors.
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Politics
Poor People’s Campaign: Barber says war and racism tightly linked
May 7, 2018Quoting Dr. King in his D.C. speech Sunday night, Barber declared, “A nation that spends more on its military than on social justice is a nation approaching spiritual death.”
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U.S.
AFL-CIO launches study of state of work and of unions
May 4, 2018The AFL-CIO says workers are buffeted by automation, globalization, and robotics, which threaten high joblessness.
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Labor
Arizona teachers win, vow to keep marching through November
May 4, 2018"We won the first battle, now we must win the war!"
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Politics
Congressional GOP lets business lobbyists rewrite labor law
May 3, 2018The Chamber of Commerce was so brazen that it had a notorious anti-union PR firm handing out press packets touting its bill at a Congressional hearing.
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U.S.
New Poor Peoples Campaign to kick off with D.C. rally
May 2, 2018“People should not live in or die from poverty in the richest nation ever to exist."
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U.S.
AFL-CIO: Trump-style job safety deregulation is killing workers
April 27, 2018Richard Trumka: “If 150 workers died every day from terrorism, there would be a hue and cry.”
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Environment
EPA staffers, supportive lawmakers demand Pruitt ouster
April 26, 2018Speakers at the rally in front of agency headquarters in downtown D.C. alternated between slamming Pruitt’s ethics and President Donald Trump’s policies, which they said would befoul the nation’s air and water all to enhance polluters’...
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