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Biden’s Support For Unions Results In Record Worker Pay Increase
President Biden has been a loud and vocal supporter of unions, and his support has resulted in a record pay increase for workers.
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Unions Just Keep Winning Under Joe Biden
President Joe Biden celebrated a victory by the culinary union in Las Vegas, which is the latest in a series of labor victories since he took office.
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Biden And Unions Team Up To Pull The Rug Out From Under Trump In Michigan, Pennsylvania, And Wisconsin
Biden moved to solidify his union support before Trump can even get started in the key states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
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Bernie Sanders And Unions To Hold Working Class Rally To Fight Corporate Greed
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is teaming up with some of the nation’s biggest unions to fight against corporate greed.
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Opinion: To Really Save Democracy, Democrats Must Rally Behind Biden’s Labor Advocacy
On the whole, as a culture, we don’t speak much of the nation’s failure to extend democracy and civil rights to workers, tending to prioritize the rights of private property and capital
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Unions Are Dying…Here’s How to Fix Them (And Why You Should Care)
The broader question is, after years of decline, do unions have a future? And should the vast majority of Americans even care?
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Opinion: Rob Portman’s Announced Departure Exposes Myth Of The “Principled Republican”
We keep hearing about splits in the Republican ranks between those who have sold their souls to the extremist arm of the party loyal to Trumpism, embodying white supremacist and anti-democratic values, and those more traditional Republicans who insist on sharply differentiating the ideology of conservativism from Trumpism. The founders of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project…
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Betsy DeVos: We Need to Reopen In-Person Learning in “Every Possible Situation”
Parents across America would like to get their children back to school, but also do so in a safe way. In some areas, that has been difficult. The city of Boston recently shuttered public schools after an alarming rise in positive COVID-19 cases. Despite having the virus, Donald Trump has also pushed for the reopening…
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The Strongest Labor President Ever: Biden Makes his Pitch to Unions
Unions have always been critical to Democratic electoral success. A big reason Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 was that she bled even a few members in states like Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Joe Biden feels strongly that he can win those voters back. The former Vice President is polling much better in these states. And…
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Kentucky Supreme Court tosses Republican pension law
By Karen Pierog CHICAGO (Reuters) – The Kentucky Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a law aimed at addressing the state’s cash-strapped retirement system because it was improperly passed by the Republican-controlled legislature. The unanimous opinion did not address the legality of pension changes contained in the law. Kentucky ranks among the bottom of U.S….
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UAW head believes U.S. Nissan workers would vote for union now
United Auto Workers president Dennis Williams said on Thursday he feels “very strongly” that if Nissan Motor Co Ltd workers at the automaker’s plant in Canton, Mississippi voted now, they would vote in favor of union representation.
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Anti-Union Hero Trump Busted For Violating Federal Labor Laws
Trump is breaking federal law and Trump Hotel Las Vegas is operating illegally. He should accept the federal government’s order and treat his workers with respect.
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With Trump Leading the GOP Today is Republicans’ “Anti-labor Day”
“Only a fool harbors the ugly thought of breaking unions or tries to deprive working people of the right to join the union of their choice.”
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Rauner Tells Illinois Democrats if They Won’t Punish the Taxpayers, He Will: Part II of a Series Covering Illinois Politics
Rauner has chosen to plunder the state for his own private interest and those of his cronies.
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Trickle-Down to Keep-the-Worker-Down: It’s Not the “Skills Gap” Driving Down Wages
Witness the reality of the GOP’s keep-the worker-down economics and its persistent drive to re-distribute wealth from the bottom to the top
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Half Of America is Now Impoverished Because the Koch-Republicans Destroyed the Middle Class
The percentage of middle-class households dropped in every state in the Union between 2000 and 2013, along with median income
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Labor Backs Bernie Sanders For President During Event In New Hampshire
At an event in Concord, NH today, local and statewide labor leaders endorsed Bernie Sanders for president.
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Scott Walker Commits Political Suicide By Promising To Step Up His War On American Workers
With his poll numbers in free fall, Walker has decided to step up his war on American workers.
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President Obama Fights For the American Workers Republicans Hate
Obama defends workers’ right to earn the federal minimum wage and overtime protections; something Republicans believe is an abomination
Conservative Prays For Katrina-Like Disaster In Chicago To Give Corporations Government Control
Instead of noting how inept the Bush response to help tens-of-thousands of Americans was, or mourning the loss of 1,800 lives, this sick psychotic conservative hoped that an equally-catastrophic disaster would strike the city of Chicago.
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Donald Trump Advises Automakers To Kill Jobs To Increase Corporate Profits
Trump’s plan to help U.S. automakers sounds an awful lot like Mitt Romney’s underhanded tactics at Bain Capital
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Inconvenient Truth: America’s Public Schools Are Among Highest Achieving In The World
If, as privatization “reformers” in Republican, corporate, and Obama Education Department claim that America’s public schools are dire failures, then America’s wealthy public schools with unionized teachers, and tenure, would be failing and not at the “top of the international charts.”
Republican VW Union Busting Victory Turns Into a Major Defeat For The GOP
By blocking the workforce’s efforts at creating a works council at the Chattanooga plant, Republicans also blocked VW expansion for Tennessee and the entire southern United States.
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Republicans Union Busting Backfires As Support For Unions Rises 10 Points
The latest Pew Research Survey has found that as Republican governors has been busting unions over the last two years, union favorability has risen from 41% to 51%.
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Can Government Pick Up Where Unions Left Off?
With union power waning, governments are implementing workers’ rights. It’s time to build a national movement built on grassroots efforts.
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Anti-Free Market Republicans Want to Kill the USPS to Create a Monopoly for UPS and FedEx
One of the reasons Republicans drool to end the USPS is that it delivers millions of parcels every single day, and at a low cost that keeps private carriers’ (FedEx and U.P.S.) prices in check.
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Michiganders Force Returning Lawmakers to Take the Walk of Shame
More than 100 Michigan workers welcomed back their lawmakers to the Capitol with shouts of ‘Shame!’, after they voted to force workers to work for less.
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States Offer Up Many Consequential Ballot Measures
Nearly 180 ballot measures face a vote on Tuesday. Here are a few of the most consequential initiatives to watch.
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Republicans Won’t Stop Their Assault on Unions Until Every State is Right-to-Work
Collective bargaining has been under attack. Now, the upcoming elections are hazardous as the GOP seeks to impose more right-to-work laws
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Ever Since Citizens United Unions Have Been Under Siege
Conservatives have steadily been eroding the power of unions in the wake of Citizens United since they are their only liberal financial foe
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Scott Walker Pulls a Palin and Stabs Romney In the Back
Scott Walker pulled a Sarah Palin special on Romney today, dissing the Republican nominee’s 2012 strategy, while setting himself up as the 2016 GOP savior.
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Why Michigan Is Not the Next Wisconsin
Rick Snyder is not Scott Walker. Both of them are repulsive in their own right, and each of their states would be considerably better off with them gone, but there are some significant differences.
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More than 100 Cities Celebrate Worker Power with May Day
Throughout America, over 100 cities celebrated the importance and power of working people in a May Day of rallies, teach-ins, walk-outs, marches and protests.
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Unions Fight Back with Largest Political Mobilization Ever For Obama
Trumka’s decision to throw the full force of the nation’s largest union behind Obama will go a long way toward providing the margin of victory that Obama and the other Democratic 2012 contenders will need to get the job done.
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Fighter In Chief President Obama Gives Epic Speech to UAW- Full Video
Allow me to introduce you to your fierce, pissed off fighter-in-chief, President Barack Obama. President Barack Obama took the stage today in Washington speaking to the United Auto Workers to wild cheers of “Four more years!” And let me tell you something…. This was an epic, genuinely passionate speech about Obama’s betting on the American…
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Romney Calls Santorum’s Robocalls to MI Democrats ‘Outrageous and Disgusting’
Mitt Romney flip flops again. Today Romney told Fox and Friends that it was “outrageous and disgusting” for Santorum to try to get Michigan Democrats to vote in Republican primaries in order to push the seemingly unelectable Rick Santorum to the top. Rick Santorum, who doesn’t support bailouts of the auto companies or Wall Street,…
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Mitt Romney Announces His Plan To Pull A Bain On Detroit’s Auto Industry
It is not surprising Romney is pushing the tactic he employed while head of Bain Capital to try to kill Detroit’s auto industry.
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Inside The Sickness That Makes Republicans Hate Poor Children
There is a sickness inherent in many Republican supporters that makes them hate the poor and extending their contempt to poor children is a natural progression.
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Republicans Destroy Middle Class Dreams One Busted Union At a Time
Corporate protection at the expense of worker safety is endemic of conservative’s ideology that corporations must be protected at any cost. Demonizing unions is just another way conservatives give corporations power to control America.