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We asked the real experts about the gap between public enthusiasm for unions and the lack of actual union members.

In 2020, COVID and the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the police revealed the extent to which people of color and the entire working class is confronting the economic injustice and racism of a political system stacked in favor of elites.

Labor unions ranging across several types of frontline workers today joined environmental groups in a lawsuit against the federal government.

Murray, a Trump supporter and climate change denier, has been a major player in industry lobbying against regulations to limit the amount of coal dust miners breathe. Now he suffers from the same fatal illness

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.