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Skilled construction jobs can transform lives

Many unions sent buses full of supporters from all across the South. There were CWA and UAW members. There were teamsters, teachers, government workers and longshoremen all in union t-shirts. This is what solidarity looks like.

The National Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, reintroduced on July 29, would establish a new set of standards for the people who work in our homes and take a vital step towards racial and gender equity.

Staff members at the Democratic National Committee are set to be represented by the Service Employees International Union Local 500.

The five-month strike is about worker power in America. It’s also about fighting for a just transition for carbon-intensive industries.

University of California student researchers have announced they have union authorization cards from a super-majority of 17,000 researchers throughout the UC system — one of the largest union drives in recent US history. We spoke to three.

A new constitution could therefore open the doors for a radical transformation of Chilean society.

Advocates want Osha to issue federal heat standards, requiring water, shade and rest breaks

“They don’t want to pay the profit back that we earned that company,” UMWA District 20 vice president Larry Spencer told the rally. "Give us a fair contract and we’ll go back to work in these coal mines" The strike is the longest in Alabama history.

Some 40,000 child-care workers across the state will receive a 15 percent raise in their new contract. The contract settlement coincided with a state budget agreement to fund 200,000 child-care slots over five years.