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If the labor movement is going to defeat Donald Trump and other anti-worker politicians, Painters union president Jimmy Williams Jr writes, it will need a wellspring of organized workers.

Richard Hooker Jr is running to replace Trump ally Sean O’Brien as president of the Teamsters International union

Agricultural jobs are some of the highest-risk labor in the United States, and large corporations rely on immigrant and migrant labor. In Michigan, employees are not protected if they are injured on the job.

Italy’s “Strike for Gaza” has lessons for US labor and the left. he active participation of unions in No Kings and the defense of immigrant workers would heighten their power and build a stronger left union presence in the US.

While critics have urged workers to approach AI more skeptically, the AFL-CIO report paints a rosier picture.

While Michigan has seen an uptick of union organizing petitions, new challenges and political strain are on the horizon, including budget cuts, unfair labor practices and new anti-labor laws.

Job creation has come to a near halt. What explains employers’ reluctance to create new jobs in an expanding economy?

Difficult as it may be, unions must organize workers in the nation’s largest and most powerful corporations, and they cannot afford to wait for labor law reform or a more favorable administration to do so.

The Mackenzie King government took control of the economy in the form of a publicly funded and a directed supply-side industrial policy. Resources and labour were channelled to produce for the war effort and the core needs of the community.

Alba Services Inc. cut insurance costs by telling workers to lie to doctors about job injuries, the attorney general’s probe concluded — and offered cash rewards to turn in workers who did try to file claims.