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The “Build Back Better Tour” by Joe Biden originated in Cleveland and made a campaign stop in Alliance, Ohio. Riding into Pennsylvania, Biden made stops in Pittsburgh, Greensburg, New Alexandria, Latrobe, and concluded here in Johnstown.

The memo discovery comes just a month after a report drew attention to two Amazon job listings posted in August seeking “intelligence analysts” to research “labor organizing threats against the company.”

'Fratelli Tutti' challenges unfair wealth distribution and market capitalism. He calls for a world based on solidarity, including just and human treatment for migrants.

The California governor vetoed a bill that would have provided some of the 28,000 recently laid off Disney workers (and others) with additional COVID-19 work protections.

Overall, 661,000 jobs were added in the U.S. labor force between August and September — but women still left it at alarming numbers.

A report from the CDC about safety procedures at a meatpacking plant whose workers were falling ill at an alarming rate early on in the pandemic is raising new questions about political interference at the agency.

Briggs & Stratton's demise directly resulted from its executives’ mismanagement, greed and pathological animosity towards the unionized workers who had made them rich.

The AFL-CIO “categorically rejects all threats to the peaceful transition of power” said Richard Trumka, “The labor movement,” he said, “simply will not allow any breach of the U.S. Constitution or other effort to deny the will of the people."

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.