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Today, corporations see Pride Month as another chance to sell their products. But the greatest gains for the LGBTQ movement came through fighting corporations, challenging workplace discrimination, and building unions.

On June 20, 2019, Oregon governor Kate Brown signed House Bill 2016 into law. The legislation brings sweeping changes for public sector employers and unions in an effort to increase unions’ direct access to represented employees at the workplace.

As the wealth gap has widened, income gains have remained anemic for Americans at all levels for the past decade. Many economists argue that what's needed is simply higher incomes so more Americans can save and build wealth.

In a speech to labor leaders and visitors at the 125th-anniversary celebration of the Great Pullman Strike on May 11, Association of Flight Attendants president Sara Nelson said, “Look at how unions banded together during the Pullman Strike."

In a qualified victory, 1,700 UE members conceded a two-tier wage structure with a 10-year progression for new hires to reach parity with current workers, but beat back the company’s demands for a harsher version of two-tier and other concessions.

We spoke with walkout leader Maddie Howard about the workers’ decision to take action on the job against the camps.

At the heart of the Green New Deal is a recognition that shifting to clean energy could leave many behind. That's why the plan protects workers' right to organize, calls for universal health care, retirement security and union jobs at a living wage.

When Stephen Sweeney, Vice-President International Association of Iron Workers, became New Jersey Senate President in 2010, he kept pressing for public employee concessions. What he did to public employees is disgraceful.

A federal board would first have to approve a walkout. The catering workers, some of whom earn as little as $8.46 an hour, are asking for higher wage and less costly health insurance.

Once we start mapping the brutality - always an organizing principle of capitalism - it will be difficult to stop.