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Prosecute Trump!
January 12, 2021
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New York, NY – Donald Trump should be prosecuted to the most extreme extent of the law. The most egregious and urgent charge would be
Author: Steve Wishnia
Labor Responds As ‘Union Man’ Martin Walsh is Picked to Lead DOL
January 12, 2021
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WASHINGTON—President-elect Joseph Biden has chosen a Laborer to be his Secretary of Labor. Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, whose nomination was announced Jan. 7, joined
NYC Transit Workers Face Threat of ‘Doomsday’ Layoffs
December 14, 2020
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NEW YORK, N.Y.—The city’s transit workers are gearing up against threatened “doomsday” layoffs that could cost almost a quarter of them their jobs. The Metropolitan
Striking Indian Farmers are Creating ‘Appropriate Havoc,’ NYC Carpenter Says
December 14, 2020
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New York, NY – For the past three weeks, tens of thousands of Indian farmers have blocked highways around New Delhi to demand the repeal
See ‘The Killing Floor’ – Race War and Union Struggle in Chicago’s Stockyards
December 7, 2020
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New York, NY – Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle, said that his 1906 novel of workers’ lives in the Chicago stockyards had “aimed for
Take It Back Campaign Urges Nonunion Workers to ‘Rise Up’ Against Greedy Developers
December 4, 2020
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NEW YORK, N.Y.—Over the last eight to ten years, nonunion contractors paying little more than minimum wage have made inroads into large-scale construction in Manhattan—and
‘They Need it Now’ – 32BJ Calls on Cuomo to Sign Healthy Terminals Act
November 18, 2020
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NEW YORK, N.Y.—Standing on circles chalked six feet apart, members of SEIU 32BJ and supporters rallied at LaGuardia Airport Nov. 17 to urge Gov. Andrew
NY Restaurant Workers Press Fight to Scrap Sub-Minimum Wage
November 17, 2020
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NEW YORK, N.Y.—In front of a towering cardboard cutout dubbed “Elena the Essential Worker”—a woman with long braids and an apron, flexing her biceps in
NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer Endorses Taxi Union’s Debt-Relief Plan
November 13, 2020
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NEW YORK, N.Y.—City Comptroller Scott Stringer has endorsed the New York Taxi Workers’ Alliance’s plan to relieve up to 6,000 yellow-cab owner-drivers of massive debt.
CWA Backs Michigan Congressmember for Secretary of Labor
November 13, 2020
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WASHINGTON—The Communications Workers of America are urging President-elect Joseph Biden to pick Rep. Andy Levin (D-Mich.), a former union organizer and green-energy advocate, as Secretary
