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A new AFL-CIO poll found that a majority of union members say the country is moving in the wrong direction, with many complaining that Trump has done nothing to reduce inflation.

In an unprecedented anti-union action last Thursday, the president moved to end collective bargaining for a million federal employees and scrap union contracts nearly that number.

The former president actually said that the wages of US workers are ‘too high’. And that’s far from the worst.

Even as Donald Trump seeks to disavow Project 2025, he and the rightwing effort’s authors have voiced similarly hostile plans for the US’s 2 million-plus federal employees – to replace many of them with political appointees.

Last year, long before his name was on anyone’s lips as a possible vice presidential pick, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz received huge praise from labor groups for signing what was considered the most pro-worker, pro-family package of legislation enacted.

How did the UAW pull off its big Southern victory, the first time a union has succeeded in organizing a foreign-owned auto plant in the South? The UAW and Shawn Fain pursued five basic strategies to achieve this victory, and those steps could serve

Shawn Fain says he expects ‘more of the same to come’ after celebrating union’s historic victory at Tennessee plant.

United Auto Workers faces first real test in campaign to unionize 13 automakers across US as Volkswagen workers vote in Tennessee

He was one of the last survivors of a historic walkout that demanded respect and a living wage and that drew Martin Luther King to their cause.

Academics decry algorithmic monitoring of workers and call for stronger standards – but U.S. unions have been slow to act.