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The backdrop is ongoing existential threats to USPS. Since Trump returned to office, the postal doomsday clock has been minutes from midnight.

Co-Ops Create Worker-Driven Ownership and Leadership Structure

Lee Saunders, President of AFSCME, has led the country’s top union for local public workers at a time of growing public support and official opposition. He is retiring after leading the union for 15years.

Around 300 staff with the Bronx Defenders Union walked off the job on Monday — the third such guild to strike this month over economic demands on behalf of its lowest-paid workers.

Tech workers are increasingly unionizing, trading Silicon Valley’s myth of exceptionalism for collective bargaining to contest the corporate deployment of artificial intelligence

A wage hike is desperately needed for the American working class, but higher wages can’t pay the bills if you want full-time hours and can’t get them. Legislation mandating a right to full-time work could fix this.

Measures effectively replace blanket 10% tariffs Trump imposed in February that were struck down by US supreme court

Without workplace democracy, the fight against autocracy will remain incomplete. With unions, workers can experience democracy at work first — and from there, they can help defend and expand democracy everywhere else.

Liz Shuler, President of the AFL-CIO, told some world leaders at Davos that if we don't manage the transition to AI well, people could revolt.

The Game Changers project offers bold, new ideas to build a stronger, fairer, greener, and more inclusive economy for all Americans. Two new proposals presented this week are Solidarity Insurance and Just Cause Job Protections.