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A key way to build broader support for the Green New Deal among organized labor, some labor experts say, is to help workers change who head the Laborers, Mine Workers and Electrical Workers unions, which oppose the Green New Deal.

A key way to build broader support for the Green New Deal among organized labor is to help workers change who head the Laborers, Mine Workers and Electrical Workers unions, which oppose the Green New Deal.

Many cities capped commission fees during the Covid-19 pandemic. As they consider making the emergency rules permanent, Grubhub and Seamless are fighting back.

Having Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants, as AFL-CIO president would be a big step towards a more democratic, militant, progressive labor movement. It won’t be easy, but there’s a real path to getting her elected.

Through “pro-labor” conservatives like Oren Cass, the populist right is offering an updated fantasy that Republicans are champions of the working class. They aren’t and never will be.

Toward the end of Netflix’s new documentary-drama The Social Dilemma, former Google employee Tristan Harris describes technology as “simultaneous utopia and dystopia.” This quote encapsulates the focus of the film.

U.S. Steel notified employees that they would lay off as many as 737 workers at the Granite City plant in late April.

Mississippi poet Philip C. Kolin links the corona virus to its tragic economic consequences.

Americans are viewing unions favorably, and that could help Joe Biden.

IndustriALL general secretary Valter Sanches explains what trade unions can do to tackle abuses stretching across international supply chains