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We need to show working people that it is possible to undertake major industry reform that puts workers and their communities at its heart by ensuring future low emissions jobs are good union jobs.

Harvard’s graduate student union began its strike Tuesday at midnight after more than a year of contract negotiations with the University.

Even though the economy is adding more jobs, there's increasing evidence that many of those new positions don't offer the kind of wages and benefits required to get ahead. Americans are working but aren't earning enough to gain economic stability.

Public sector worker in Argentina fight for better conditions.

A sexual harassment scandal at AFGE headquarters is making the union’s resistance to Trump more difficult.

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“We’re in a different world today, where management is all about the money and the company’s bottom line, but where’s the dignity of a person?”

The protest was one of 16 at major national airports on behalf of 20,000 airline-catering workers.

2,000 USW copper miners, on strike at 5 ASARCO plants in Texas and Arizona, have not been paid for over a month. Union members and the community have come together to donate food, ensuring every striker is able to have a Thanksgiving meal.

Eighteen states rang in 2019 with minimum wage increases — some that will ultimately rise as high as $15 an hour — and so far, opponents' dire predictions of job losses have not come true.