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How Workers Can Demand Climate Justice
A Bargaining for the Common Good approach to the climate crisis
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Restoring Workers’ Rights
Employers have aggressively dismantled unions and impeded organizing efforts. That’s why we need fundamental reform of labor law.
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How Immigrant Workers Are Fighting Deportation Raids
Workplace organizing is helping immigrants to understand their rights as ICE and other immigration authorities crack down.
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Sanders Is Trying to Have It Both Ways on Union Health Care
He claims that Medicare for All will be comprehensive with no duplicative insurance. But he promises unions that they can have something extra.
Posted inEconomic Policy
No Seat at the Table: Steven Greenhouse on Labor’s Silenced Voice
A veteran labor reporter finds hope for unions in boycotts, minimum-wage campaigns, and strikes.
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Trumpistas Seek to Deflate Labor’s Friend
The NLRB persists in its fight to outlaw Scabby the Rat, the balloon rodent who helps out workers when they picket their bosses.
Posted inAmerica and the World
American Call Center Workers Rally for Their Filipino Counterparts
While American call center jobs are offshored to the labor-hostile Philippines, some American call center workers are publicly supporting Filipino workers’ right to organize.
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The Man Who Put Public-Employee Unions on the Map
Saturday is the 100th birthday of Jerry Wurf, who turned AFSCME into a powerhouse and a champion of equal rights.