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A May Day Push to ‘Shut It Down’ Takes Shape Across the Country

Unions join community groups in planning marches, walkouts and economic actions on May 1 as a show of worker power ahead of the midterm elections.

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Today on TAP: 55,000 L.A. County workers just walked off the job. Striking was their only way to win raises commensurate with the cost of living.

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Today on TAP: On Thursday, a diverse set of demonstrators will focus on working-class rights and concerns.

Also, the Fed throws the oil industry a lifeline. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for May 1, 2020.

Americans work longer hours (even in multiple part-time jobs) than their European counterparts. Here’s how to create a better work-life balance.

Some cast the labor movement as dying or even dead, but even amid attacks on collective bargaining workers are finding innovative ways to organize.