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With issues like pay, benefits, paid sick time, paid family leave, minimum staffing levels, schedule flexibility, mental health, and workplace safety becoming increasingly urgent in the pandemic, women have emerged as union leaders as never before.

Workers went on strike and pushed union drives in record numbers after corporations made giant pandemic profits.

Democratic leaders have been pursuing a ​“two-track” strategy linking the Build Back Better Act with an infrastructure bill championed by conservative Democrats. Recent AFL-CIO and AFT actions raise questions about their support for this approach.

Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a time to honor the people of the land that we live on as well as the work that Indigenous people continue to contribute to our labor history.

This is the first in a three part series examining the history of the use of paid officers and staff in labor unions. This installment looks at the origins of the practice in the 18th & 19th centuries. Links to parts 2 and 3 at end of article.

Kooper Caraway, the head of the state’s AFL-CIO, is done with thinking small.

For the labor movement, Rich Trumka’s death is a huge loss. His leadership qualities are a reminder of what the movement will so desperately need to move forward.