2019 Blog Posts

• America's Backbone
• Top 1.0% of earners see wages up 157.8% since 1979
• The Trump tax act delivered big benefits to the rich and corporations but nearly none for working families
• Can “powerless nobodies” fight the corporate powers?
• Congress Has Ironed Out Its TIVSA Disagreements
• The People's Postal Service: No One Gets Left Off the List
• Working-Class Christmas
• Are America’s Rich Getting Tired of Winning Yet?
• The "Sock Queen" Knits Tradition and Innovation Together
• U.S. employers are charged with violating federal law in 41.5% of all union election campaigns
• Get to Know AFL-CIO's Affiliates: National Association of Letter Carriers
• America's Do-Nothing Senate
• It’s Time for Trade Negotiators to Start Talking About China’s Human Rights Abuses
• "A Deeper Patriotism" - Take 5, Season 2 (Full Episode)
• 10 examples of Trump's anti-worker agenda at the NLRB
• Looking for evidence of wage-led productivity growth
• Let’s Check in on What’s Been Happening With General Motors in Lordstown
• What’s scaring the bejeezus out of billionaires?
• Building Freedom
• Valuing Working-Class Life: Recent Memoirs by Working-Class Women
• Human Service Workers at Persad Center Vote to Join the USW
• Bipartisan Bill Aims to Make Sure Drinking Water Infrastructure is Made in America
• The Robots are Coming, But There's No Need to Fear Them
• Amplified Advantage: Why Education Is Not the Answer to Our Class Problems
• A Future Where People Will Have Jobs: A Conversation
• How This Congresswoman Is Fighting the Rising Cost of Medication
• Workers will lose more than $700 million dollars annually under proposed DOL rule
• Putting the Brakes on Corporate America’s Inequality Engine
• Members of Local 7798 achieve major goal with workplace violence policy
• Trade Unions Demand Governments Address Gender-based Violence in the World of Work
• Striking Teachers Are Fighting For Much More Than Paychecks
• Analyses claiming that taxes on millionaires and billionaires will slow economic growth are fundamentally flawed
• Why would we trust plutocrats to save us from plutocracy
• Stand in Support of Musicians!
• New Bipartisan Legislation Aims to Make it Tougher for China to Dodge Trade Laws
• Will Attig connects the labor movement and the veterans community at AFL-CIO
• NAFTA Déjà Vu
• National Labor Relations Board twists the knife in the heart of unions and workers
• We’re Revisiting Some of Our Favorite Past Made in America Holiday Gift Guide Picks
• Selling Out Safety
• Don’t Let China’s State-Owned CRRC Build NYC’s Subway, State Lawmakers Say
• How California’s AB5 protects workers from misclassification
• Don’t Subsidize Companies That Silence Workers
• Philadelphia Domestic Workers Win a New Bill of Rights
• Report Highlights U.S.-China Priorities for Congressional Action
• There’s a Lot of “Banned, Unsafe, Mislabeled” Stuff on Amazon That’s Imported From China
• Killing U.S. Manufacturing is a Policy Choice
• How holiday favorite Wendell August Forge rose from the ashes, stronger than ever
• USW Local 675 tackle process safety management after Chevron Refinery Fire
• Where can Trump find a good farm policy?
• Retirees discuss why we need the Butch Lewis Act now
• The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act isn’t working and there’s no reason to think that will change
• Rep. Haley Stevens demands protection for workers' pensions
• Amazon's Major Money Dump in Seattle's City Council Election Seen as 'Dangerous and Ominous Development'
• Labor Wins
• No Vote On NAFTA Until It Is Fixed!
• Unleashing Corporate Spies
• Counting on Class: The Continuing Appeal of Meritocracy
• Global Steel Industry Groups Unite for Action on Steel Excess Capacity Crisis
• The racial wealth divide hurts the entire middle class
• A little-known agency that is supposed to protect workers is instead eroding workers’ basic labor rights
• Global Steel Industry Groups Unite for Action on Steel Excess Capacity Crisis
• Riley chosen to continue mission as head of Alabama AFL-CIO
• How Much in ‘Inequality Tax’ Are You Paying?
• China, Which Has a Steel Overcapacity Problem, Leaves Forum on Steel Overcapacity
• A CEO’s Defense: His Scientists Made Him Do It!
• 'Outrageous': Analysis Shows $1.7 Billion Payout for WeWork CEO Equal to Years of Salary for Company's Expected 4,000 Laid Off Workers
• Can an Economic Stat Help Narrow Our Grand Economic Divide?
• The man who rigged America's election maps
• Our Tax System Rewards Polluters
• Why China’s CRRC and BYD Pose Such a Serious Threat to the United States
• Stolen Pensions | Coal Miners
• A Top Exec Gets His Kicks Kicking Passengers
• China Wants $2.4 Billion from the U.S. Over an Old WTO Tariff Dispute
• Why Are Indigenous People Dying At The Border?
• WTO Report Revealed: Yes, EU Industries Can Treat China as a Non-Market Economy
• An Accomplice To Murder
• The Economics and Politics of Financial Transactions Taxes and Wealth Taxes
• Kroger: Don’t Lose Local News Audio Player
• How American CEOs got so rich
• Equality and Electability
• Robots On Everyone’s Mind At the Fourth Democratic Debate
• UFCW, Public Citizen Sue to Stop Dangerous Slaughterhouse Rules
• Twin Cities home health care workers win unpaid overtime
• American Democracy Is Not A Charity Case
• Black and Hispanic men could face disproportionate job loss due to transportation automation
• How Oil-Loving Texas is Making America Green Again
• General Motors Makes Record Profits On Backs of Workers
• The Key to Distributing Wealth More Equitably
• America’s Wealthy: Ever Eager to Pay Their Taxes!
• Unions stand with LGBTQ+ workers in DC during SCOTUS arguments
• Factories Lose 2,000 Jobs in September
• Unions oppose discrimination against LGBTQ+ people
• China's BYD Wants to Dominate the Global Auto Industry, At U.S. Taxpayer Expense
• Federal workers protest Trump anti-union edicts
• Executive Excess 2019: Making corporations pay for big pay gaps
• No One Should Have To Bargain For Health Care
• A Superstar CEO Takes One Greedy Step Too Far
• The FTC’s Enforcement of “Made in USA” is Notoriously Weak. It’s Time to Change That.
• Household income growth was slower and less widespread in 2018 than in 2017
• Senate Republicans approve corporatist Scalia as Labor Secretary
• Robert Reich: Trump's Economy Revealed
• The News Media’s Blind Spots Covering the Working Class
• Trump's Economy Revealed
• House panel approves pro-worker labor law rewrite
• Trump’s labor board wants to deprive graduate student workers of their basic right to form unions
• The GM Strike: A Century of Context
• Teamsters Say Taxpayer Dollars Shouldn’t Go to Chinese Companies to Build Transit
• A Pregnant Target
• More Work Is Needed To Fix Trump's Corporate-rigged NAFTA 2.0
• What’s luck got to do with it? When it comes to money, quite a bit
• Stress, Overwork, and Insecurity are Driving the Invisible Workplace Accident Rate
• DOL Nominee Scalia Promises to Enforce Labor Law, But Ducks Policy Commitments
• Star-Spangled Knockoff
• GM intransigence forces 49,000 UAW members to strike
• Manufacturing Rebounds in August
• An Invitation to Sunny Miami. What Could Be Bad?
• GM Strike Shows How The Economy STILL Doesn’t Work For The 99%
• Wealth That Concentrates Kills
• The 2018 Poverty, Income, and health coverage results: a tale of three forces.
• Trump Labor Board Appointees Rule Against Workers Unfairly Labeled Independent Contractors
• California Protects Precariat Workers
• Support platform company workers!
• Congress to Examine the Health and Safety Risks of China’s “Grip” on Medicine
• Even the Grim Reaper Favors the Rich
• UMW President Talks Climate Change and Politics
• New York Gov. Cuomo Wants to Make His State’s Buy American Law Permanent
• Censoring the Working Class
• Payrolls slow and the trade war is hurting manufacturing. But underlying job market still solid.
• Tax The Rich Before The Rest
• Wage growth is weak for a tight labor market—and the pace of wage growth is uneven across race and gender
• Is Manufacturing Slowing Down?
• Google’s Chance to Do Good for Gig Workers
• China’s Government-Owned CRRC Just Bought a German Locomotives Factory
• Even Big Oil doesn’t like the EPA’s methane rollback
• Raising the federal minimum wage isn’t just the right thing to do for workers—it’s also good for the economy
• Military Leaders: Ban Buses & Rail Cars from Chinese State-Owned or Controlled Firms
• It’s the beginning of the school year and teachers are once again opening up their wallets to buy school supplies
• Labor Day 2019: Trump Tries to Outlaw Balloons
• The 5-Step CEO Pay Scam
• Rail Workers, Citizens Oppose Hazardous Trump Proposal
• The AMA Gets Out Of The Way Of #MedicareForAll
• Majority of Americans Have An Unfavorable Opinion of China, Pew Study Finds
• Who does Trump’s farm bailout bail out?
• Trump Needs To Keep His Promise To Superfund
• Opioid CEOs Are Our Nation’s Real Druglords
• America's broken campaign finance system is a 2020 issue
• Gordon Gekko Gets Religion, Sort of
• Construction Unions Protest Trump Admin's New Apprenticeship Rules
• America’s Spies Considering What Happens if Huawei Wins the 5G Race
• Federal funding needed to thwart attacks on 2020 elections, state officials say
• Workers of the World Unite (At Last)
• Weingarten to Walmart: 'Stop Selling Guns or We'll Stop Shopping There'
• The Double Life of a Truck Driver
• Let’s Get This Legislation Over the Finish Line
• New Hampshire’s Republican governor just vetoed a bipartisan redistricting commission
• Patriotic Millionaire Gets Soaked in Dunk Tank Over Inequality
• He Gets the Bucks, We Get All the Deadly Bangs
• Out of Ottawa, Some Deflating New Stats on Life in the World’s Richest Nation
• After Years in China, This American Manufacturer Made a Mighty Move
• A Tire that Inspires Fear
• Unions, EPI Back Warren Bill to Crack Down on Private Equity Funds
• Watchdog groups sound the gerrymandering alarm on ALEC’s ‘redistricting’ workshops
• Corruption Rundown: Pro-Gerrymandering Lawsuit, FBI corruption scandal, & more
• The Myth of the Rugged Individual
• Senator Cory Booker Speaks on Gun Violence and White Nationalism at Emanuel AME
• Can the Wealthy Hardwire Inequality into Our DNA?
• If Inequality Continues to Grow at Current Rate, Richest Americans Will Own 100% of US Wealth in 33 Years: Analysis
• Move to Missouri or Lose Your Job: GM Workers Facing Hard Choices
• 17 million Americans purged from voter rolls between 2016 and 2018, new report finds
• NAFTA Trade Tour Hits the Road
• What is Currency Manipulation? Why is Trump Saying China Does It? Why Does This Matter?
• How Teachers Helped Oust Puerto Rico’s Governor
• Trump is trying to kill electric cars but will kill jobs and the climate instead
• Corruption Rundown: Mitch McConnell, Tulsi Gabbard, and President Trump
• Why Eugene Scalia is the wrong person for the job
• Marching 600 Miles for Democracy
• Labor Wins Big in Nevada
• Oregon AFL-CIO Cements Deal to Make Portland Baseball Stadium Union-Friendly
• Trump imposes more tariffs on China, but he’s out of ideas. Now China holds the cards.
• Unpaid Miners Block Train
• Jobless Rate Unchanged at 3.7 Percent
• Donald Trump goes back to pretending to care about infrastructure
• Trump Picked the Wrong Side
• Biden’s Record Was in the Spotlight During the Second Democratic Debate, Including on Trade
• Republicans deploy a nasty bait-and-switch to save one of their worst gerrymanders
• The Dems Take the Motor City for Round One of the Debates, and Trade Comes Up
• Reject Scalia for Labor Secretary
• House Passes Bill to Protect Multi-employer Pension Plans
• Detroit Provides the Right Backdrop for 2020 Democratic Candidates to Talk Manufacturing
• Organizing Precariat Workers Presents Problems
• New Minnesota Law Protects Workers from Wage Theft
• Nurses, Neighbors Protest Johns Hopkins Hospital Practices
• Fueled by their donations, Mitch McConnell pushes special tax break for bourbon industry
• UAW to Detroit Three: Invest Record Profits in Workers
• Never Underestimate the Collective Power of Working People
• Double or Nothing on Infrastructure
• Trump Nominates Late Justice Scalia's Son as Labor Secretary
• Mueller Hearing Not Enough for Impeachment
• 6 years after fast food workers walked off the job, House passes $15 federal minimum wage
• Eight Lessons America Can Learn from International Apprenticeship Programs
• Court Panel Upholds Trump's Anti-Worker Orders
• Amazon Warehouse Workers Strike
• Fiscal collapse of coal towns increasingly likely, new research shows
• Corruption Rundown: Lobbyists & Medicare, Ranked Choice Voting, and a New 2020 Democratic Contender
• Low-wage workers will see huge gains from minimum wage hike, CBO finds
• Michigan Rep. Andy Levin Lauds Retiring USW President Gerard
• Key Panel Oks Multi-Employer Pensions Rescue Bill
• Rand Paul blocks funding bill for 9/11 victims over hypocritical budget concerns
• How Congress Can Address Climate Change, Create Jobs and Support U.S. Manufacturers
• House Acts to Block Federal Funding for Rail Cars Built by Chinese State-Owned Companies
• Raise the Wage!
• Pregnant 17-year-old’s death may lead to federal law protecting workers from excessive heat
• Here’s the straight skinny on Medicare for All
• A Bus Tour Pushes For Higher Taxes on the Rich
• AFL-CIO Supports Amazon Workers During Strike
• Communications Workers Launch Anti-Offshoring Offensive
• More evidence that higher minimum wages largely do what they’re supposed to do
• Stock Buybacks are Deadly. It’s Time to End Them.
• The Soul of a Union Man
• Robert Reich: The 4 Biggest Lies About Inequality
• PRO Act Would Put Power Back in Workers’ Hands
• How to get Congress to reform our broken healthcare system
• More evidence–this time from CBO–that higher (even much higher) minimum wages largely do what they’re supposed to do.
• Why Trump’s Reversal on Huawei is a Bad Deal
• July jobs: nice pop on payrolls but flat wage growth
• Illinois Democrats Approve Slate of Pro-Labor Laws
• Union Member Brings Unemployment Benefit Increase Bill to Governor’s Desk
• N.Y. Grants Farm Workers Labor Rights
• Corruption Rundown: Gerrymandering, EPA Ethics Probe, and Affairs with Lobbyists
• These photos ended child labor in the U.S.
• What’s good for Wall Street is often bad for American workers and manufacturing
• A Cheerleader for Capitalism Growing a Bit Testy
• Is Bernie Sanders Right that 3 Billionaires Have more Wealth than Half of America?
• Bernie’s Right: 3 Billionaires Really Do Have More Wealth Than Half of America
• AOC & Grassley Criticize Big Pharma & Increasing Drug Prices
• Pro-Worker Dems Bargain With Trump Trade Rep About Worker Rights and the ‘New NAFTA’
• New York Points A New Way Forward For The Nation
• China and America: The Struggle for Independence
• OPINION: Trump Is Right on China Trade, But So Far Has Little to Show For It.
• BGA Plan Announces Plan to Reduce Economic Inequality and Climate Change
• Warren’s brilliant plan to neutralize Republican voter suppression
• Immigration enforcement is funded at a much higher rate than labor standards enforcement—and the gap is widening
• Let’s decode Trump’s Afta-Nafta trade deal
• This Deep Pocket Lets His Millions Do His Talking
• Trump's Broken Promises: Prescription Drug Costs
• Taxes, Grand Fortune, and Gloria Vanderbilt
• GOP congressman voted for tax cuts, now says America is too indebted to pay for appropriations bill
• The Frontlines of the Health Care Fight in Western Pennsylvania
• How The Super-Rich Avoid Paying Their Share
• The Black Working Class Was Hit Especially Hard by Factory Job Loss and Industrial Flight
• Across the Border: Teaching Service-Learning as Labor Activism
• 'Eye-Popping': Analysis Shows Top 1% Gained $21 Trillion in Wealth Since 1989 While Bottom Half Lost $900 Billion
• Federal Minimum Wage Reaches Disappointing Milestone
• Congress has never let the federal minimum wage erode for this long
• Millions to lose benefits under Trump’s proposal to change how poverty is defined, new study shows
• How to Create Even More Jobs with Infrastructure Investment
• Trump can’t stop coal’s death spiral, and his trade war may speed it up
• Steelmaker ArcelorMittal Unveils Its First Climate Action Report
• The 7 Biggest Failures of Trumponomics
• Making sense of NAFTA and its replacement
• Uber Drivers Deserve Legal Rights and Protections
• Foxconn Is Looking to Move iPhone Production Out of China… Maybe to Wisconsin?
• NAFTA Old and New: Deals by the Rich for the Rich
• Trump to Working Class: 'Adios, Chumps'
• How Republicans’ zeal for gerrymandering could blow up in their faces
• American Medical Association is warming up to single payer after decades-long opposition
• Take Action! Tell Congress to Support the Transit Infrastructure Vehicle Security Act
• Union Proud: A Conversation with Pride@Work Executive Director Jerame Davis
• Elizabeth Warren Is Right on Currency Values
• 10 American-Made Father’s Day Gifts Your Dad Will Love
• Working People Win in Delaware
• Farm workers in New York deserve overtime pay
• Mitch McConnell Is Democracy’s Grim Reaper
• A Nation Where Only The Rich Have Homes?
• A better way to tax the rich
• Federal Workers Back House Bill Providing 3.1% Pay Raises
• Trump to decide on new China tariffs following G20 summit, as tensions with Republicans rise
• This CEO Started a Platform to Help Companies with Diversity & Inclusion
• Trump to Republicans: It would be foolish to try and block my tariffs
• Delaware Governor Signs Bill Protecting Collective Bargaining Rights of 2,000 More State Employees
• Farmers running out of patience with Trump over trade: 'This is survival'
• New Leadership for USW
• Will the Democrats Abandon Lordstown to Trump?
• Rev. Barber is on trial over a health care protest he led 2 years ago
• Why Unions Are Essential to So Many American Families
• Bernie Sanders brings the fight for a $15 minimum wage to Walmart’s shareholders meeting
• HR 1 Passed the House. Time for Appropriators to Make Good on its Promises
• Acting DHS secretary can’t explain how Trump’s tariffs on Mexico work
• Where’s the beef in Trump’s new trade deal?
• Trump and the Mexican tariffs: How far is this administration willing to go to achieve their protectionist, anti-humanitarian goals? Maybe farther than we thought.
• Connecticut Congresswoman Speaks Out Against Union-busting
• New study confirms ordinary Americans got fleeced by the Trump tax bill
• A Conversation With House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
• AOC Calls for Ban on Revolving Door as Study Shows Two-Thirds of Recently Departed Lawmakers Now K Street Lobbyists
• Co-Governing Puts Us ‘In The Room Where It Happens’
• Reps. Sharice Davids and Katie Porter on Women Leading in Congress
• 4 big questions Trump has to answer about his tariffs on Mexico
• The time to prepare for the next recession is now
• Wrangler Gets Rooted: Denim Company Rolls Out Fully American-made Jeans
• Stacey Abrams on Amplifying Voices and Votes
• Leo W. Gerard Announces Retirement; VP Tom Conway to Replace Him
• AFGE: Trump Plan to Trash Govt. Personnel Agency Would Politicize Civil Service
• Why I Got Arrested For #MedicareForAll
• Republicans are undermining Michigan’s redistricting effort, secretary of state says
• House Panels Threaten Subpoenas Over Trump Effort to Trash Affordable Care Act
• Trump's Trade War with China is waged to make the rich richer
• AOC and Elizabeth Warren Have Some Questions for Steve Munchin
• Coatesville Aims to Make Steel for 200 Years
• Happy Memorial Day, from the USW
• Donald Trump's Sneak Attack on Social Security
• An Economy for All Americans
• Sen. Ron Wyden is tired of Republicans ignoring election security
• [Insert Your Infrastructure Week Joke Here]
• Sen. Harris: Families are suffering, but Trump isn't listening
• Buy America 2.0 Act Seeks to Close Key Infrastructure Funding Loopholes
• Oops: Trump admitted he blew up the infrastructure deal, not Democrats
• Beware Billionaires Bearing Gifts
• It's No Joke! Americans Want to Rebuild Infrastructure
• America’s Steel Communities Make a Comeback
• Prominent Dems Introduce Bill Banning Forced Arbitration
• Why Drugs Are So Expensive In America
• Fighting inequality is key to preparing for the next recession
• Pushing back gently but firmly on Michael Strain’s non-stagnation argument
• A Few Hundred Million Good Reasons Not to Care
• Infrastructure Push Starts, But Hits Roadblock: Dollars
• Murdered Trade Unionists: The Truth Behind Colombia’s Trade Agreement
• Key Lawmaker, Unions, Discussing Ways To Fund Infrastructure
• Infrastructure Advocates Warn Against Using Projects to Repeat Past Racial, Class Divisions
• Volkswagen Gets NLRB to Throw Legal Delay into New UAW Organizing Drive at Chattanooga
• AOC Grills Pharma CEO over Drug Prices
• They did their time. They regained the vote. Florida is taking it away again.
• We hear the Dow Jones Average, but why not the Doug Jones Average?
• It Is Time to #InvestigateATT
• Trade War Update: More Tariffs Go Up
• Planting New Roots in the U.S.
• Future of workers uncertain as third-biggest US coal company declares bankruptcy
• Surprise! Kavanaugh joins liberal justices in 5-4 decision
• #BuildForTomorrow
• Politcizing Critical Transportation Projects is a Dangerous Game Working Families Cannot Afford
• Big Pharma & Congress: A Love Story
• ALEC Wants To Make Protest Illegal In Illinois
• The PRO Act: Pathway to Power for Workers
• In it for the long haul — Two decades of global union solidarity at Bridgestone Firestone
• Ady Barkan Risks His Life to Deliver Health Care Message to Congress
• Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez join forces with Loan Shark Prevention Act aimed at consumer-credit abuses
• Is It Time for Labor to Return to Its Socialist Roots?
• 183 Republicans vote against bill to protect people with pre-existing conditions
• The Remarkable Mothers of Social Security
• Trump joins anti-vaxxers to attack Obamacare
• How To Prevent Workplace Violence | Safety On The Job
• AAM is Traveling to America’s Steel Towns to See the Real-Life Impacts of the Section 232 Tariffs
• How Racial Resentment Is Killing White Working Class Americans
• President Trump Says Lordstown is Saved! But… Is It?
• Lawmakers Push to Enact Collective Bargaining Rights for Public Safety Workers
• The Reality Behind the ‘Surging’ U.S. Economy
• Better Insurance Begets Better Life
• Trump's NAFTA 2.0: Pharma Rigged It. Will Congress Fix It?
• The PRO Act: Giving workers more bargaining power on the job
• Senators Want to Create a New Website to Help U.S. Manufacturers Win Federal Contracts
• This Steel Town Is Celebrating Again. Here's Why.
• Six Dem Hopefuls Push Workers' Rights at Las Vegas Forum
• White Nationalism Occupy Jewish Author's Book Reading in D.C. Store
• U.S. Steel Is Investing $1 Billion to Transform Mon Valley Works Near Pittsburgh
• Trump admin officially rolls back safety rules put in place after Deepwater Horizon
• SEIU Challenges Trump Ban on Payroll Deductions for Home Care Workers
• Vanishing benefits for U.S. workers in NAFTA 2.0
• Trump, Democrats Play Nice on Infrastructure
• A Plaintive Plea from America’s Rich: Can We Please Change the Subject?
• Republican congressman suggests GOP spent 8 years saving their health care plan for 2019
• American Workers Are Not Happy
• No Surprise: Trump’s “Buy American” Policy Is a Sham
• Fox News is very mad that a union endorsed Biden
• Social Security trustees report shows modest improvement in financial outlook
• Everything You Need to Know About the New Economy
• The economic impacts of the revised NAFTA (USMCA) Agreement
• It's Not Socialism; It's What the People Want
• Umm… So What About That Currency Report Due This Month?
• GOP judges launch bizarre attack on Black Lives Matter and the First Amendment
• Trumka: Democratic-run U.S. House ‘has stood on the side of workers’
• A Shrill Health Insurance Chief Goes in for the Kill
• Gentrification Now Has More than Landlubbers Worried
• The 12 Biggest Myths about Raising Taxes on the Rich
• Honoring a Victim’s Memory on Workers’ Memorial Day
• Dem Leaders Dubious about New NAFTA Labor Rules
• Robert Reich: Everything You Need to Know About the New Economy
• Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders Uses Lordstown to Go After President Trump
• Disney Heiress Spoke Out Against Tax Bill-- Even Though She Benefitted From It
• Stop & Shop workers win pay, benefits concessions after 11-day strike
• FTC Commissioner Calls for Tougher Penalties Against False “Made in USA” Claims
• Activists vow to fight back as Tennessee lawmakers attempt to criminalize some voter registration
• Ten Solutions to Bridge the Racial Wealth Divide
• The Making of the Masters Green Jacket is Shrouded in Mystery. But is it Made in America?
• Democrats Take on Corporate Profits and CEO Pay: A Closer Look
• Fighting to Fix the New NAFTA
• Class(room) Warfare
• It takes two to tango: The complementarity of the derigging project and expanded tax credits.
• "Pay the price or we die."
• Higher Taxes & Broken Promises
• Put Some Made in America Spring in Your Step This Easter and Passover
• Amazon – and 56 Other Corporations – Took Your Tax Dollars
• Trump’s Trade Deal with China Might Not Tackle Industrial Subsidies
• Patriotic Millionaires Have Simple Message: Tax the Rich
• Plutocracies as Problem-Solvers (for the Privileged)
• On Capitol Hill: A Clueless Big-Bank Top Executive
• Trump's NAFTA 2.0 Was Made For Big Pharma and Major Corporations
• House Dems Slam Big Bank CEOs Over Pay Disparity
• Bonuses are up one cent in 2018 since the GOP tax cuts passed
• Robert Reich: America is now a hotbed of socialism — for the rich
• Elizabeth Warren Shares her Support for Pitt Grad Union Organizing Campaign
• New Labor College Launched in St. Paul
• Elizabeth Warren’s new tax proposal targets Trump’s tax plan and corporate free riders
• New National Poll: We Want Infrastructure, and We Want it American-made
• Hard Knocks Turned Alison McIntosh Collectivist
• Dem Presidential Hopefuls Address Building Trades Unionists
• Medicare For All: Accept No Substitutes
• Trump’s tax cuts for Betsy DeVos and the very rich are being paid for by education cuts
• The Hypocrisy of the "Socialism" Label
• Letting Dirty Trucks Glide Past Pollution Protections
• Grad Students as Steelworkers
• ‘This Mill Is Everything in This Community.’
• Trump's War on Healthcare is Back
• The Myth of Meritocracy
• Republicans' never-ending failure to replace Obamacare
• Housing discrimination underpins the staggering wealth gap between blacks and whites
• The Opportunity for a Chinese Trade Deal Is There, If Trump Can Seize It.
• The Tax-the-Rich Ideas Just Keep Coming
• After 123 Years, Lodge Cast Iron is Still Family-Owned — and Still American-Made
• Rep. Ro Khanna: Big Pharma is Rigging NAFTA 2.0
• A Cure for Excessive Wealth Disorder
• Meet the Billionaires Profiting off Job Losses at GM
• It’s March Madness. Unionize the NCAA!
• Will Trump Sink Structural Changes in Exchange for Soybeans?
• A ‘Buyback’ for Our Future?
• Democrats Defend Affordable Care Act
• The Lordstown Workers Gave Up a Lot in an Attempt to Save Their Plant
• The House makes way for equal pay with the passage of Paycheck Fairness Act
• Who Speaks for Us?
• Machinist Daniel Wasik on Respect for the Working Class
• Members of Congress Want Natural Gas Exported to China to Travel on U.S. Ships
• Things are Better for the Steel Industry Thanks to Recent Trade Action — But China Still Looms
• Why NAFTA’s 2.0 current labor provisions fall short
• Fast food workers declare victory after McDonald’s withdraws opposition to minimum wage hikes
• Republicans on Health Care: Do Vast Harm
• Worker’s Story Starts Pushing Major Labor Law Reform through House
• Trump Justice Department sides with court ruling that would invalidate the Affordable Care Act
• Trade Committee Gets an Earful on Workers’ Rights in the USMCA
• GM Plant Closures May Force Strike
• Higher returns on education can’t explain growing wage inequality
• The Pentagon can’t explain where $2.5 billion in border wall funding is coming from
• Bring Back Eisenhower Socialism
• Wall Street Pressured GM to Close Plants
• What’s the Real American Story?
• Republican congressman introduces bill to fix the injustice of college sports
• University of Tennessee will be free for low-income students starting in fall 2020
• A Bold New Idea to Boost Wages
• Solidarity Against Hate
• China Cheating Under the Microscope During Capitol Hill Hearings
• The Supreme Court is about to kick America’s democratic death spiral into overdrive
• President Trump has Noticed the Lordstown Closure
• A close look at recent increases in the black unemployment rate
• Trump Budget Would Slash Funding for Manufacturing Extension Partnerships
• Support the Equality Act
• Robert Reich: A Bold New Idea to Boost Wages
• Putting Billionaires in Their Place
• Airport Screeners Still Shorted Pay for Work During Shutdown
• Lumber Liquidators Agrees to $33 Million Penalty for Dangerous Made in China Flooring
• A Just, Inclusive and Sustainable Economy
• The Supreme Court takes up a gerrymander so egregious even its Republicans may strike it down
• When Dorms Mimic Mansions
• Women’s national team escalates dispute with U.S. Soccer, filing gender discrimination lawsuit
• The big cheat of 2018: Corporations make billions in profits, demand tax refunds from the American public
• Jobs and Medicare for All Bargaining for the Common Good Comes of Age
• How We Can Stop Wall Street From Threatening Democracy
• House passes sweeping voting rights, electoral reform bill
• Super-rich tax cheats can now expect to avoid audits after years of Republican sabotage guts IRS
• The Big Cheat
• Are February’s Disappointing Jobs Numbers the Start of a New Trend or Just a Blip?
• John Oliver’s Segment on Jobs and Automation Doesn’t Quite Get It Right
• Union Fights Back
• Teachers Urge Divestment from Private Prisons
• Trump’s rollbacks would increase CO2 emissions by more than 200 million tons annually, report finds
• Have the Rich Always Laughed at Stiff Taxes?
• Record U.S. trade deficit in 2018 reflects failure of Trump’s trade policies
• Latest Manufacturing Numbers Could Be Trend or Blip: AAM Statement
• What’s Worse Than Ticket Scalpers? Stock Scalpers.
• Unbreaking America: A NEW Short Film about Solving the Corruption Crisis
• When will ‘Buy American’ really mean buy American?
• As Lordstown GM’s Last Car Rolls Off the Line, 1,400 Jobs Disappear
• Sen. Schumer Blasts GOP for Advancing Dangerous Judicial Nominations to Second Circuit
• A brief, 90-year history of Republicans calling Democrats ‘socialists’
• To Reduce Inequality, Let’s Downsize the Financial Sector
• The Shutdown’s Devastating Ripple Effects
• Activists Ask Candidates Where They Stand on Good Jobs, Sustainable Growth and Economic Justice
• GM is Closing My Plant. What Are Politicians Going to Do About It?
• Rabble Rousing for Righteous Retirement
• A Year Later, Section 232 Trade Action Continues to Fortify Steel and Aluminum Industries
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• Future of Unions Conference Speakers Push Sectoral Bargaining
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• Undocumented workers hired by Trump speak out about abuse
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• China: An Abusive Trade Partner
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• Ohio representative shuts down Republican economist on $15 minimum wage
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• Mulvaney says Trump may still force another shutdown despite adequate funding
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• Protecting America’s Workers Act Introduced, Would Strengthen OSHA and Workers’ Rights
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• Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Proves Just How Easily Corporate PAC Money Can Influence Politics
• Yet Another Big Reason to Look for ‘Made in the USA’ When Buying Clothes
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• Pence issues a thinly veiled shutdown threat to Democrats
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• Weakening Beryllium Protections: How Business Influence Affects Regulatory Process
• OSHA Announces Rollback of Recordkeeping Requirements
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• Democrats Try to Stop Eviction of Unpaid Federal Workers
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• Democrats Unveil $15-an-hour Minimum Wage Bill
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• Neil Gorsuch pens a devastating takedown of his own most important opinion
• Dreams Deferred: How Enriching the 1% Widens the Racial Wealth Divide
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• Yet Another Sign Tariffs Are Working
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• HGTV’s Home Town Stars Commit to Revitalizing America’s Small Towns and Manufacturing
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• House Democrats have a plan to actually drain the swamp. Senate Republicans are going to hate it.
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