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Press Associates Union News Service provides national coverage of news affecting workers, including activism, politics, economics, legislation in Congress and actions by the White House, federal agencies and the courts that affect working people. Mark Gruenberg is Editor in chief and owner of Press Associates Union News Service, Washington, D.C.

LATEST ARTICLES BY PAI

Labor

Low pay forces 10k Atlantic City casino workers to approve strike
June 30, 2022 By PAI
Low pay and—often—short-staffing forced some 10,000 casino workers in Atlantic City, N.J., to vote 96%-4% to authorize a strike. Many could walk July 1.
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Labor

Labor law expert: Union-heavy states more likely to have laws protecting abortion rights
June 29, 2022 By PAI
“Now, millions of women’s lives depend on a strong labor movement in all of America,” says former NLRB member Sharon Block.
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Labor

Teachers union leader: School gun violence fear leads kids to write their wills
June 23, 2022 By PAI
NEA President Becky Pringle says the nation must break the cycle of shootings via strong gun controls. And she doesn’t mean pistol-packing teachers in classrooms, either.
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Politics

AFL-CIO: Supporting PRO Act is a litmus test for politicians wanting labor’s backing
June 22, 2022 By PAI
Unions won’t devote money or volunteers to electing anyone in the midterms who doesn’t support stronger labor laws, regardless of their record on other issues.
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Labor

Worker-led CORE Union takes a bite out of Apple with Maryland win
June 21, 2022 By PAI
The 65-33 margin among the 110 eligible voters at the Towson store, in the northern Baltimore suburbs, makes those workers the first at Apple to go union.
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Labor

Anti-union Philadelphia Museum of Art bosses fire workers, eliminate pay—for years
June 17, 2022 By PAI
The majority of museum staff were making less than $50,000 a year, and 90% were making less than $15 an hour in a high-cost city, and now they’re hit, like other workers, by rising inflation.
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Labor

AFL-CIO convention steps up fight to win documented status for all migrants
June 16, 2022 By PAI
“The AFL-CIO is committed to building an inclusive labor movement that brings good jobs and a secure future to all workers, regardless of where we were born,” a new resolution states.
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Labor

New study shows equal pay gap even wider than realized
March 18, 2022 By PAI
It turns out that insufficient methodology has resulted in the underestimation of the pay gap between men and women.
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