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You Did That!: The Working People Weekly List

You Did That!: The Working People Weekly List Every week, we bring you a roundup of the top news and commentary about issues and events important to working families. Here’s this week’s Working People Weekly List. NYC Unions Rally Against Cable Giant Charter/Spectrum: "Trumka, in a rousing speech, told workers, 'Your hard work made Charter Cable on […]

Video Workers at Vice Vote to Join the Union Family

Video Workers at Vice Vote to Join the Union Family VICE Union on Twitter Workers for Vice Media voted this week to come together in union, with content creators joining the Writers Guild of America, East, (WGAE) and post-production employees becoming members of the Motion Picture Editors Guild (MPEG), an affiliate of the Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE). […]

Joining Together to Help Others: Worker Wins

Joining Together to Help Others: Worker Wins Our latest roundup of worker wins begins with stories of teachers and nurses joining together to help patients and students and includes numerous examples of workers organizing, bargaining and mobilizing for a better life. D.C. Teachers Overwhelmingly Approve New Contract: Educators in Washington, D.C., voted 97% […]

Trumka: Charter/Spectrum Employees Want Fair Return on Their Work

Trumka: Charter/Spectrum Employees Want Fair Return on Their Work IBEW Local 3 This week, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka joined union and community leaders marching across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York to show solidarity for Charter/Spectrum workers who are on strike. To those who marched, Trumka spoke about how the hard work of Charter/Spectrum employee […]

The Senate Is in a Hurry to Cut Our Health Care

The Senate Is in a Hurry to Cut Our Health Care AFL-CIO Do you remember "Repeal and Replace," "Repeal and Run" and "Skinny Repeal"? Those were all plans pushed by the Senate Republican leaders at the end of July in a frantic, failed attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and make massive cuts in our health care. Million […]

How the Canadians Are Trying to Use NAFTA to Raise Your Wage

How the Canadians Are Trying to Use NAFTA to Raise Your Wage AFL-CIO Finally, after nearly a quarter of a century, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is being renegotiated. This is a good thing. NAFTA is called a "trade deal," but it’s mostly a collection of rules that give corporations more power over the three economies of North Amer […]

North Carolina’s Labor Federation Elects First Woman President

North Carolina’s Labor Federation Elects First Woman President North Carolina State AFL-CIO MaryBe McMillan becomes the first woman to lead the North Carolina labor movement after being unanimously elected president of the North Carolina State AFL-CIO during the 60th annual convention that wrapped up today. McMillan has served as secretary-treasurer of the s […]

Popular Support for Working People at Highest Level in a Decade: The Working People Weekly List IBEW Local 3 Every week, we bring you a roundup of the top news and commentary about issues and events important to working families. Here’s this week’s Working People Weekly List. Support for Labor Unions Is at Decade High, Poll Finds: "Union approval is at […]

OSHA's Claims About Hiding Information on Worker Deaths Fall Flat

OSHA's Claims About Hiding Information on Worker Deaths Fall Flat Since January, government agencies under the Donald Trump administration have taken steps to hide information from the public--information that was previously posted and information that the public has a right to know. But a recent move is especially personal. Two weeks ago, the agency r […]

AFT Survey Shows Strong Parental Support for Public Schools

AFT Survey Shows Strong Parental Support for Public Schools AFT Too often, the voices of the parents of public school children are left out of our national discussions about education. The AFT sought to change this and commissioned a survey that interviewed 1,200 public school parents to learn how they feel about the issues that directly affect their childre […]

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