2018 Blog Posts

• The Global Working Class Fights Back
• Michigan GOP Defies Voters, Rams ALEC, Koch Priorities Through Lame-Duck Session
• Will GM Weather This Bad Publicity Storm?
• Farm Bill Drops OSHA Language that Would Have Endangered Chem Plant Workers
• The Trump administration hid a report about campus financial products. Here’s why it matters.
• Yellow vests and general strikes
• We don’t feel better off, because we’re not
• Training Can Reset Outlook for Manufacturing Communities
• Nuke Plant Shutdown is Model for Move to Renewable Energy
• U.S. silent as China arrests Protestant pastor and members of congregation
• A Unionized Model for Clean Technology Manufacturing
• Paul Ryan Only Ever Cared About the Rich
• If Democrats Fracture, This Will Be the Fault Line
• Alito cut the legs out of the latest attack on Obamacare — and didn’t even know he did it
• Ivanka Trump promised her dad would deliver a great family leave plan. Here’s what we got.
• Zinke used Thanksgiving to sneak a Koch adviser and party loyalist into key public information role
• The Inequality to Be Suffered by Our Children
• Trump Shutdown Threat Risks 600,000 paychecks
• House Workforce Committee Goes Out With a Whimper, Not a Bang
• Ilhan Omar shuts down right-wing pastor who says Congress is becoming ‘Islamic republic’
• Members of UNITE HERE Set Standard in Contract with Marriott
• Infrastructure Matters. It’s Time to Get Serious About Funding It
• Will the Arrest of a Chinese Telecom Executive Derail Trade Talks?
• The key to saving us from Gorsuch and Kavanaugh lies in an obscure law signed by George H.W. Bush
• Commentary: Job insecurity and lower wages plague the American worker
• Even Super Good Times Sometimes Stop Rolling
• Republicans nationwide enact back-up plan after losing elections: just reject the results
• Congressman-Elect Max Rose On Rejecting Lobbyist Money
• Powerful Democratic House member pledges support for a Green New Deal
• Pres. Obama Gives it to You Straight
• What Teacher Walkouts Changed in Our Politics
• Weekly Toll: Three Weeks of Death on the Job
• Future of NAFTA 2.0 Could Turn on Labor Rights
• Scott Paul Discusses General Motors and Trade
• These companies claimed the GOP tax bill would ‘boost jobs.’ Now they’re laying off employees.
• Trump buried a wildly anti-LGBTQ provision in the new North American trade deal
• White Collar Crime
• What's Wrong with GM?
• Mitch McConnell is personally denying Donald Trump a win that nearly everyone would celebrate
• GLUE: Gorgeous Ladies Unionizing Everywhere!
• So This Is How General Motors Repays Decades of Hard Work?
• The Ripple Effect of Job Losses in a Community
• Remember when Trump said he’d fix the trade deficit? It just rose again.
• Eight Holiday Gifts American Workers Need
• George H.W. Bush’s single worst decision is also his most lasting legacy
• Barbara Ehrenreich Speaks Truth to Royalty
• Charmer Has a Severe Case of Upper Class Angst
• Trump Administration Positions for a Tougher Stance in U.S.-China Trade
• GM, Jobs, and Corporate America’s Incentive to Exploit
• Will the New NAFTA Make a Difference?
• New NAFTA’s Not Done
• Senator Presses FTC to Enforce Consequences for Made in USA Labeling Violators
• Trump didn’t know the GOP tax bill incentivizes business to offshore jobs
• The Distortions from Tariffs and the Distortions from Patent Monopolies
• GM Job Cuts, Plant Closures Betray Workers, Contracts
• How Alabama Citizens Are Getting Their Voting Rights Back
• Elizabeth Warren: "This is why I oppose NAFTA 2.0"
• Deaths on Small Farms and Modern-Day Slavery
• Teamsters Note Good and Bad Points of New NAFTA
• AFL-CIO Withholds Support for New NAFTA
• Melissa Mark Viverito on Why Amazon HQ2 is Bad for New York
• Automation Augmentation Enhances Workers’ Roles in Factories
• Sen. Sherrod Brown on the GM Plant Shutdowns: "American workers deserve better"
• Workers Petition Congress: Protect Our Pensions
• Class Prejudice and the Democrats’ Blue Wave?
• Feds Find Kentucky Fails To Meet Standards For Worker Safety
• Facts That Privileged Americans Don't Want Us to Know
• Corporations Should Share the Wealth Before Buying Back Stock
• The roots of America's democracy problem
• The 2018 Made in America Holiday Gift Guide
• US, UK Progressive Leaders Aim to Open Corporate Boardrooms to Workers
• By banning mandatory arbitration clauses and class and collective action waivers, Congress could restore a fundamental workers right
• The GOP strategy to make the midterm elections about bigotry pretty much failed
• Pet Body Armor: Protect Your Furry Friends With This Tough American-Made Vest
• New Trump-Named Regime Guts Workers’ Rights, Refuses to Sign VA Contract
• The new Democratic House should make worker empowerment a priority
• Should you have to pay to protest?
• The United States Postal Service - Keep It. It's yours!
• Billionaire Bonanza 2018: Inherited Wealth Dynasties in the 21st-Century U.S.
• What a Democratic House will mean for Medicare for All
• Robert Reich: The Roadblock to Common Sense Pension Reform
• Trade Deal Procurement Rules Level the Playing Field
• What happens when women win elections
• Hiding Injuries at Tesla: Where The Worker Still Doesn’t Matter
• The House Has Gone Democratic. Can the House Now Go Bold?
• We The People: How The GOP's Tax Cuts Perpetuate Income Inequality
• A Challenge to the Freshmen – and Freshwomen – Democrats
• Just Doing Their Job — And Now They’re Dying For It
• Republican congressman sues to stop vote count, cites made-up provision of the Constitution
• We The People: The GOP Is Pulling Off The Biggest Con Job In US History
• What Marco Rubio Gets Completely Wrong
• Supreme Court to hear a subtle but terrifying threat to Obamacare
• GOP-dominated Labor Board majority uses ‘joint employer’ rule to restrict picketing
• Working families in America need #UnionsForAll
• Midterm Results Are In, But 3 Big Manufacturing Questions Remain
• 6 Women of Color Who Campaigned for Congress on Inequality and Won
• Shot, Stabbed and Assaulted: Violence Against Nurses
• Make America Vote
• The Truth about the Trump Economy
• GOP made it easier to subpoena presidential administrations in 2015. Now Democrats have that power.
• Joe Biden Just Went Off on the Trump Administration
• Voters approve additional public education funding in several states
• Native Americans overcome North Dakota’s restrictive voter ID laws, turn out in record numbers
• Unions Made the Difference in the 2018 Midterms
• Endowment to America’s Only Textile College Recognizes Importance of U.S. Manufacturing
• Seven Democrats flipped key governor seats
• Scott Walker, who rose to prominence attacking teachers unions, toppled by a former teacher
• America Rejects Trumpism
• Minimum wage increases pass in Arkansas and Missouri
• When people say politics doesn't affect them...
• The Plans for Wisconsin’s Foxconn Factory Keep Changing
• Vote Your Future Today!
• Why Vote?
• What you can do to protect your right to vote in hard times
• "Don't tell me that my son's life is worth less because he costs more."
• The 1% Benefit More When Americans Don't Vote
• Worker Safety Round-up
• Voter Suppression Continues to Put Racism Before Democracy
• For the sake of the nation, the right to vote must never be a privilege for the few
• #JusttheBeginning
• Waffles, Beer, and the Penalty We Pay for Tolerating Inequality
• Canada's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
• The Truth About Trump’s Economy
• 3.4 Million American Jobs Wiped Out by U.S.-China Trade
• Pence Points to Vocational Training as Bipartisan Opportunity
• Brian Kemp claims Stacey Abrams wants 'illegals' to vote
• Ford Is About to Start Cranking Out Rangers in Michigan
• Big Cuts
• In Australia, ‘Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing’
• Union Leaders, Jewish Labor Committee Blame Reckless Political Rhetoric for Bomb Threats and Squirrel Hill and Louisville Shootings
• These are the Floridians trying to overturn a Jim Crow-era disenfranchisement law
• While Trump Trade Fights Gain Steam, Manufacturing Still Gaining Jobs
• It's time that Democrats start speaking from the heart. Here's why.
• Mar-Jack: OSHA Inspectors “Are Not There For Us”
• Trump’s NLRB Just Quietly Ruled to Make Union Pickets Illegal
• WFP National Director Maurice Mitchell: We fight hate with solidarity
• Report: The American Freight Rail Network is Unguarded and At Risk
• Jury finds defendants in FBI college basketball corruption trial guilty on all counts
• Lopsided Trade with China Continues to Cost Americans Millions of Jobs, Study Confirms
• “Complacency Killed My Brother!”
• Manufacturing Matters
• Fact from fiction: What you should know about the migrant caravan making its way to the U.S. border
• Trump immigration policy breaks up a military family, yet again
• An Arena Full of the Richest Americans Would Own as Much Wealth as 70% of the World
• China Grabs 3.4 Million American Jobs
• Red State, White Evangelicals, and a Blue Wave?
• The Truth about the GOP and Preexisting Conditions
• Message to Millennials
• Why last week was the beginning of the end for NCAA amateurism
• What Lessons Can Be Learned from NAFTA?
• Robert Reich: Message to Millennials
• Top 1.0 percent reaches highest wages ever—up 157 percent since 1979
• President Obama Doesn't Have Time for These 7 Excuses for Not Voting
• Fall 2018 Regulatory Agenda: No Surprises
• In New York, the Art of a Deal Gone Bitterly Bad
• Canada Erects Steel Safeguard Tariffs
• 100% Union Strong
• White House Puts Out Its Plan for American Leadership in Advanced Manufacturing
• Dispatches from the Front Lines of Workplace and Environmental Safety: October Edition
• Your Vote is the Last Line of Defense Against One-Party Control
• EPA move to revoke California vehicle emissions waiver generates bipartisan outrage
• Three Easy Fixes for Social Security and Medicare
• Abigail Disney on Trump’s Tax Cuts and the 1%
• Senators Tell the Federal Trade Commission to Get Tougher on “Made in the USA” Cheats
• No Surprise Here: U.S. Defense Supply Chain is Reliant on China & Other Rivals, Report Finds
• American Manufacturers Can Lead the World to a Cleaner, Brighter Future
• Trump administration wins first conviction for non-citizen voting
• Georgia GOP gubernatorial candidate sued for blocking 53,000 voter registrations
• Living in a New Gilded Age
• Harder Times for Poultry Workers
• Americans Want a Manufacturing Overhaul and They Want It Now
• Trump administration waives 28 environmental and health protections to build border wall in Texas
• Woman Relies on Medicaid After Becoming Paralyzed
• U.S.-China Trade Fight Increasingly Includes Currency
• Trump writes laughably false op-ed about Medicare for All
• The Strategy to End Corruption
• Will the U.S. Treasury’s Imminent Report to Congress on Trade Partners’ Currency Practices Once Again Fall Short of Its Mandate?
• Neo-Nazi who attacked Amtrak train revealed as Unite the Right participant
• 5 Things To Do To Protect Voting Rights
• Public Citizen Analysis: How the New NAFTA Text Measures Against Key Changes We Have Demanded to Stop NAFTA’s Ongoing Damage
• Nostalgia for NAFTA? Our Wealthy Will Have Plenty
• August Trade Deficit Hits $53.2 billion; China Trade Deficit Sets Another Monthly Record
• Sen. Sherrod Brown Fights Back against 'Junk' Health Insurance Plans
• We Need More Senators Who Support Workers Like Senator Jon Tester
• Competitors Moved Offshore, But Nokona Still Makes Its Baseball Gloves in America
• Keeping Cancer Cures a Corporate Profit Center
• Labor Leaders, Allies Skeptical about New NAFTA
• Slaughter in the Trenches -- "We mean nothing to no one."
• The Disparate Devastation of Hurricane Florence
• NYC Window Washers -- The Reason Workers Need a Fully-Funded OSHA
• Senator Tester holds French company accountable to Montana workers
• One Job Should Be Enough
• The New NAFTA Has an Interesting Rule In It
• Amazon Announces Minimum Wage Scam
• Robert Reich: Trump's Betrayal of the Working Class
• EPA to roll back mercury rule in a boon to coal industry and blow to human health
• Share the Wealth? Of Course. But When?
• The ‘Unintended Consequences’ of Letting the Rich Get Richer
• Locking in further regressive tax cuts would just make the TCJA worse
• Working in Mordor: Workers and the Hazards of Oil & Gas Pipeline Work
• New Treasury data busts the myth of government “inefficiency”
• Willie Nelson Debuts New Call to Action
• As Trade War Ramps Up, China Wonders Aloud What Trump’s Intentions Are
• We Have a NAFTA — Er, USMCA — Deal!
• Don’t Want to be Incinerated in Your Sleep? Too Bad
• Airport Workers Band Together and Win
• Unions: Unicorns for the Middle Class
• Corporate Harassment
• NAFTA's Damaging Effect on America's Favorite Cookie
• Why I’m Betting on Millennials, this November 6th
• 'Man-Killing Jobs' and Environmental Racism
• Zinke is officially rolling back offshore oil and gas production safety rules
• With NAFTA Deadline Looming, A Glimpse at What Voters Actually Want Out of Trade Deals
• Is America Importing its Pollution?
• A Teacher’s Dream Deferred
• Why the Economy Isn't a Winning Issue for the GOP
• You Can Be Fired for Not Showing Up to Work During a Hurricane
• How Millions of Americans Are Losing Their Right to Vote
• The Capitalist Manifesto: Let Poor People Die
• Kavanaugh: Is There Honor in Getting Your Fingers Bitten Off?
• Chuck Jones Will Kick Your Ass
• Will you win the “Throw Your Money At Amazon” Sweepstakes?
• Teresa Romero Selected as First Woman President of United Farm Workers
• OSHA Update: Good Budget News from Congress
• Is 2018 really the 'Year of the Women'?
• Our New Gilded Statistical Golden Age
• Construction Was Clogged With Sexism—Until She Fought For More Women In The Pipeline
• Towering Excess: The Perils of the Luxury Real Estate Boom for Bostonians
• Pres. Obama answers the question on everyone's minds
• Patient advocate groups sue Trump administration over skimpy health plans
• How many tweety birds does it take to Tweet the truth?
• Stealth Coup by the Rich
• It's Time to Get Billionaires off Welfare
• There He Goes Again: Kavanaugh Still Doesn’t Get It
• Century Foundation Unveils Its Federal Agenda to Build a High Wage America
• Teachers’ Union Leaders Demand Full Federal Funding for Educating Poor Kids
• Elizabeth Warren's Fight to #EndCorruptionNow
• New Census data show that low-income people are responding as they always do to tight labor markets…by working!
• People Love to Talk About the Skills Gap. But What About the “Productivity-Pay Gap”?
• Thank Organized Labor
• Kavanaugh: Good for Corporations, Bad for Your Wallet
• In Split Decisions, Judge Kavanaugh Sided With Corporations 87% of the Time
• Poverty declined in most states in 2017
• A Fierce Defender of Truth and Classic Opulence
• The Union Difference Is Even More Pronounced for Families of Color
• "Every Job is Worthwhile"
• Ohio Democratic campaign staffers fight the state party for a fair contract
• This Florida woman had to travel 10 hours by bus to have her voting rights restored
• Exclusive With President Obama On Why Midterms Matter
• Kavanaugh’s Lies About SeaWorld: Annotated
• Robert Reich: The Dangerous Myth of Deregulation
• Workers Working for A Safe and Prosperous Future
• Steelworkers Vote to Give Negotiators Authorization for Strike Against U.S. Steel
• Federal Agencies Spent Over $92 Billion on Foreign Contracts Because of Buy America Loopholes
• Middle-Class Influence vs. Working-Class Character
• "They'll Use You Till You Wear-Out"
• Kavanaugh Testifies, While Workers Continue to Die
• After blowing up the deficit with tax cuts, these Republicans want credit for fiscal responsibility
• Lobbyists are suing voters in Missouri
• Check Your Wallet: Can You Find the $4k Trump Promised You?
• How to Recognize a Plutocracy: The Dead Giveaway
• The Largest Prison Strike in U.S. History Holds Strong
• China’s Cyber Espionage Continues, and There’s a Big Cost
• Black Lung is Back
• Trump Betrays Workers – Again and Again and Again
• Beto O'Rourke on NFL Players Kneeling During the National Anthem
• An Update on NAFTA by Lori Wallach
• The Degrowth Movement Challenges the Conventional Wisdom on Economic Health
• There is more than meets the eye when it comes to the most recent jobs report
• What's at Stake with the Kavanaugh Nomination
• How Taxpayers Subsidize Giant Corporate Pay Gaps
• Kavanaugh’s Disdain for Worker Safety Disqualifies Him
• Democratic Senator Calls on President Trump to Keep His Buy America Promise
• U.S. Steel’s CEO is Playing a Dangerous Game of Chicken with the Markets, Steelworkers and America
• Republicans are missing out on the ‘Year of the Woman’
• CPA Says John Oliver is Wrong On Trade: A New Light on Trade
• Foxconn Springs a Surprise for its Wisconsin Factory Plans
• Worker Killed In Trench Collapse — Again. Why? And What Can Be Done?
• Stats That Voters Should Know About Trump's Economy
• White House Officially Tells Congress It Will Enter Trade Agreement with Mexico, and Maybe Canada
• The single most important issue in Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing
• We Once Jailed CEOs for Their Crimes. Remember?
• The GOP Tax Scam is Still Scamming
• What Happens When You Privatize Medicaid?
• Would You Recognize a Plutocracy If You Saw One?
• Federal Judge Rules Trump’s Anti-Worker Executive Orders Unconstitutional
• Labor Day: 24 Hours When Workers Are Human
• Labor's Day, More or Less?
• Faces of Greed: The Walton Family of Walmart
• Scoring Trump’s Tax Cuts So Far: $280,000 for Rich Lawmakers, Pennies for Workers
• Republicans admit they’ll slash Medicare, Social Security to pay for their tax cuts
• Market Failures, Taxes, and Subsidies
• Help save America’s public post offices
• How Class Works
• EPA admits Trump would sacrifice thousands of U.S. lives to save a few coal plants
• Sorry to Bother You: A Spectacle That Teaches
• Court Orders EPA To Implement Chemical Plant Safety Rule
• Imports, Exports, and Exchange Rates: Crash Course Economics
• Review: Labor and the Class Idea in the U.S. and Canada
• It's Time to Get Real about U.S. Steel
• The Market Made Them Do It
• A Banner Year for Working People
• Union leaders: ‘devil is in the details’ on new US-Mexico trade deal
• Majority-black Georgia county rejects plan to close 7 of its 9 polling places
• The Swamp: Dirty Money and Backroom Deals
• Want to Increase the Number of Apprentices? Here’s Where to Start.
• Corporations Suppress Wages Despite Soaring Profits
• Trump's Tariffs Are Not Really the Point
• Poverty Isn't a Lack of Character -- It's a Lack of Cash
• Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff
• "United Together for Kids"
• Lynx; Trump/Erdogan: compare and contrast
• Growing Popularity of Medicare-for-All Puts Opponents on the Defensive
• America's War
• Will the U.S. and EU Revive the Damaging Pro-corporate, Anti-people TTIP Agenda?
• ALEC in Disarray
• Social Mobility Has Stalled Around the World
• Arkansas Medicaid beneficiaries sue the Trump administration over work requirements
• This Millionaire Explains How Easy it is for the Rich to Exploit the System
• How Randomistas Can Help Fight Inequality
• How We Can Make the Economy Work for All Stakeholders
• Trump is Making Asbestos Great Again
• How to Turn Back a Giant
• Corporations Owe Americans More
• FCC Approves Plan CWA Says Could Endanger Telecom Pole Workers
• Filling the Halls of Power
• Why 10% of Floridians Can’t Vote
• The Many Types of Racism in the United States Today
• Students of All Ages Can Get Ready for Class with Made in America School Supplies
• What you need to know about housing discrimination
• ZTE Fight Comes to a Close, At Least for Now
• The President Is Cooking Up More Beef with Harley-Davidson
• What Is Asbestos And Why Is It Dangerous?
• Whispers of the Wealthy Few
• Gentrification shreds the fabric of our cities while making rich developers even richer
• How to Fix America's Corrupt Political System
• ‘Fox & Friends’ dehumanizes Christine Hallquist
• Corruption is Legal in America
• Trump’s Threats Against Media Prompt Calls for Security
• Trump claimed he saved this company. Now, it’s reportedly facing its lowest point ever.
• “Freak Accidents” — Neither Freakish, nor Accidental
• Robert Reich on Republican Plan to Slash Medicaid and Medicare
• Wage theft lawsuit muddies the water for potential Amazon headquarters in D.C.
• Anti-Corruption Victory in Michigan
• Forget About Trump's Tariffs
• Workers Rack Up Big Win In Missouri, Smashing Right-to-Work by Huge Margin
• Separate is still unequal: How patterns of occupational segregation impact pay for black women
• Team Trump Plans Another Tax Cut for the Rich
• Missouri Voters Show Right-To-Work Is A Political Loser, Even In Trump States
• OSHA Cites Two Multiple Death Cases Very Differently
• Baltimore set to be first major U.S. city to ban water privatization
• Women Are Kinda Crushing It In The 2018 Primaries
• A Working People Win in Missouri
• Nice Try: OSHA’s Rollback of the Recordkeeping Rule–The Real Story
• Real Government Help for Working-Class People
• Missouri voters reject anti-union law through referendum
• ALEC Sets the Table for Gerrymandering, Union Busting, Protecting Fossil Fuels, and Privatizing Schools
• 5 Crazy Facts About Lobbyists - Follow the Money #11
• Meet the lesbian Native American woman running for Congress in Kansas
• Republican gerrymandering wall is starting to crumble
• The Definitive List of 2018’s Most American-made Cars is Here
• An Economy in the Fast Lane – With No Brakes
• Trump administration wants to give $100 billion tax break to the rich
• Union Tips for U.S. Trips: Monument Edition
• Civil rights groups will converge on Washington, D.C. to protest white supremacist rally
• New IPS Report: Warehousing Wealth
• Koch-backed study finds ‘Medicare for All’ would save U.S. trillions
• Not Everything Trump Says on Trade is Wrong: Countries Don't Always Benefit from More Trade
• How a Fashion Industry Veteran Kept American Suitmaker Hart Schaffner Marx in Business…
• Federal Workers Take to Streets to Protest Trump Union Busting
• Bank Workers Rising
• Why is wage growth so slow? It’s not because low-wage jobs are being added disproportionately
• Steelworkers Remind Congress that Real People are at the Heart of the Steel Crisis
• Harley Davidson Workers Lose in Trump Economy
• Labor Leaders Ask OSHA to Protect Workers from Excess Heat
• Guaranteeing Our Fundamental Dignity
• FLRA seeks to charge Education Dept. of union busting
• Navy Veteran Experiences Amazon's Horrific Working Conditions
• Lawmakers Accelerate Push for Medicare-for-All
• Sometimes You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat It Too, Mark
• China is Quietly Becoming the World’s Pharmacy — and There Are Big Risks
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Traumatizing To Conservatives
• Republicans: Up is Down, Medicare is Safe
• US to Workers Killed on Small Farms: We Don’t Care
• The Risks of America's Dependence on China for Medicine
• Can Democrats Stop Trump's SCOTUS Nominee, Brett Kavanaugh?
• It’s July 2018, And There’s No Movement on Infrastructure Legislation
• Collective Action Is Key to Keeping Labor Strong
• Groups Petition OSHA to Issue Heat Standard
• Lessons for American Manufacturing, Found in Europe
• How ‘Janus’ Will Boost Income Inequality in America
• Stay Cool with These Ethical Summer Essentials
• Really Goofy: A CEO ‘Job Creator’ Barks Back
• Obama speaks during Mandela tribute, urges wealthy to give back to those in need
• NFL suspends new anthem rules, working with players to find ‘solution to the anthem issue’
• A Sweet New Century for America’s Most Privileged
• The GOP's 4-Step Plan to Cut Social Security and Medicare
• Rep. Joe Kennedy III: House Republicans Are Doing Nothing …
• Watch Out Workers, Here Comes Brett Kavanaugh
• Facebook’s $6,000 donation to Nunes throws its self-proclaimed neutrality into question
• Corporations Steal from Workers
• U.S. Trade Deals Mean Justice for Some, Not Justice for All
• When We All Vote
• Gentrification shreds the fabric of our cities while making rich developers even richer
• How a Multiracial Populism Can Build a 21st Century Economy
• Home Health Care Workers Under Attack
• Are We in a Trade War?
• Obama Scolds Trump Tactics
• Protests against Pittsburgh hospital expansion highlight city’s growing racial health disparities
• A Dark Veil
• If You Live in Missouri, Vote 'No' on Proposition A
• SMART General President Sellers responds to recent attacks on union members
• Senator Hopes to Forge the Future with Manufacturing Summer Camps
• Here’s How China Can Escalate a Trade War With the U.S.
• Why You Should Still Support Made in America, Even If You Don’t Like Donald Trump
• Steelworker Forges His Family Legacy
• Teachers urged to Unite the Masses against Attacks on Schools
• To Brett Kavanaugh and Donald Trump, Immigrants Have No Rights
• America First vs. Germany First
• After Janus, Electrical Workers Show the Power is in Our Hands
• There's A Lot of Talk About a Trade War with China. But How Did We Get Here?
• Unpacking Disingenuous GOP Complaints About Presidential Trade Authority
• No Excuse for Bad Wages
• That Which Is Justly Ours
• There’s Complaints About the Skills Gap Again. But There Are Also Solutions.
• Special Report: What Can We Do?
• Trump’s Plan for Trade: The last thing we need is more trade deals
• More solid job gains, but no real wage growth
• How vicious is the GOP’s war on the poor?
• In Conversation: Elizabeth Warren and Robert Reich
• Kavanaugh: Threat to Workers and to OSHA
• What Is The World Trade Organization?
• Progressives Oppose Supreme Court Pick, Citing Anti-Worker and -Women History
• Trump Supreme Court Pick Bad News for Workers, Unions, Women
• Want A Stronger Economy? Try Collective Bargaining
• Why Trump Wants to Make Banks Risky Again
• Scott Pruitt’s replacement expected to carry on Trump’s anti-regulatory agenda at EPA
• New Poor People's Campaign Gets Union Backing and Brings Demands to Congress
• New York, New York, What a Less than Wonderful Town
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: There's Room For Democratic Socialists In The Democratic Party
• Toys ‘R’ Us Workers Take on Private Equity Vultures
• A Grim Update for 2018: More Evidence That Half of Americans Are In or Near Poverty
• Why Do CEOs Make So Much Money?
• GM is Cruising from Ohio to Mexico
• Who Are Trump's Potential SCOTUS Picks?
• Worry More about A Living Wage and Less About SNAP
• Billionaire Wolves in Workers’ Clothing
• Why ‘Janus’ Figures to Juice Income Inequality in America
• Janus decision is not about union finances—it’s about working people’s finances
• Unions, Labor Advocates Condemn Janus Ruling, Vow to Fight Back
• Why Are We Blind to a Signal of Distress?
• Ivanka Trump makes bogus claim about labor force participation rate
• Respect for Human Dignity
• The Dos and Don’ts for an American-Made Fourth of July
• Alexandria Ocasio Cortez: Trump Isn't Ready For A Girl From The Bronx
• Working People Stand Resolute in the Face of Janus Ruling
• Rebuilding America
• Congress and the President Need to Listen to Workers on Trade
• Senate Floor Showdown: Sen. Sherrod Brown Blocks Anti-Section 232 Vote
• What is the Freedom Foundation?
• Walgreens to spend windfall from GOP tax cuts on itself
• Labor Fights Back After U.S. Supreme Court Tries to Strike it Down
• Trump individual income tax cut: $89 a day for the 1 percent; 11 cents a day for the poor
• Study: Popularity of Joining Unions Surges
• North Carolina Republicans renew voter suppression efforts that were struck down by Supreme Court
• Supreme Court Conservatives Crush Workers, Again
• What the Janus v. AFSCME ruling means for unions
• Working People Say Neither the U.S. nor Canada Gets Trade Policy Right
• In 5-4 decision, Supreme Court undercuts workers’ freedom to organize
• The Supreme Court just stuck a knife in public sector unions
• A New Yorker with a Message for Workers Across the Country
• Race And Voting In America
• CEO pay: Still not related to performance
• In Defense of the ACA
• What Trump Gets Wrong About Trade
• Here Come the Cuts
• Supreme Court’s Janus Ruling Will Hurt Children
• Trump’s likely pick for consumer financial protection bureau has no experience in consumer finance
• The Infrastructure Domino(‘s) Effect
• This is Your Daughter’s Labor Movement
• Trump Still Wants to Save ZTE, the Chinese Telecom Firm That’s a Threat to U.S. Security
• Trump’s China Plans Are Muddy, but IP Tariffs Are Still the Right Call
• The "Jobs for Everyone" Fantasy
• The Wall Street Con Now Shredding Our Economic Future
• A Broken Immigration System
• Domino’s just out-Trumped Trump with offer to rebuild America’s infrastructure
• A Shining City on the Hill Treats Immigrants Humanely
• UAW Trade Resolution Demands “Significant Economic Consequences” for Worker Rights Violators
• Unions...Yes!
• Republicans renew attempts to repeal Obamacare
• Divorce or Bankruptcy to Pay for Medical Bills
• The Supreme Court’s grand showdown over partisan gerrymandering ends with a whimper
• Supreme Court decision in Janus threatens the quality of public-sector jobs and public services
• Through Our Eyes: Teachers Living on the Brink of Bankruptcy
• This is how Florida makes it nearly impossible for ex-felons to get their voting rights restored
• Make Unions Militant Again
• #DearJeffBezos: An open letter from Washington Post employees
• We Love You, Dad!
• What's The Janus Case Really About?
• A Better Deal for Workers
• How the Supreme Court could rule against working people
• Where’s that $4,000 Raise the GOP Promised Workers?
• You Gotta Fight for Your Right to Vote
• There's A Lot of Talk About a Trade War with China. But How Did We Get Here?
• Workers’ wages fall after passage of GOP tax cuts
• Grand Theft Paycheck: How Big Corporations Shortchange Their Workers
• Is Trump Winning or Losing on Trade?
• Wage Theft: To Fight the Crime, Attack the Motive
• Missouri's Greitens Guts Public-Sector Unions on His Way out the Door
• A Coffee Bean Baron Rushes to Our Rescue
• Veronique de Rugy and Scott Paul on President Trump's Trade Policies
• Global Garment Industry Supply Chains Remain Rife with Gender-Based Violence
• President Trump Is Officially Reviving ZTE
• We Talked To 18 Teachers In Oklahoma Calling It Quits
• The Supreme Court just cleared the way for the mass disenfranchisement of voters
• The Next Generation of Factory Workers Prepare to Take the Helm
• North Carolina tries to revive its discriminatory voter ID law as constitutional amendment
• For Captured Regulators, Repealing the Volcker Rule is Child’s Play
• Check the Big Banks
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