Tidbits - Mar.20 - Reader Comments: Mahmoud Khalil Arrest Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since Red Scare; Assault on Social Security; DHS Ends TSA Officers' Contract; Teachers And Schools; Call Script: Demand the Release of Mahmoud Khalil; more....

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Reader Comments: Schumer Capitulates; Trump and Musk Getting Whooped in Courts; Bill to Ban Federal Labor Unions; Mahmoud Khalil’s Letter From Jail; Greenpeace Responds; NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION SATURDAY, APRIL 5 - Tools and Resources; and more...

Tidbits – Mar.13 – Reader Comments: Mahmoud Khalil Arrest Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since Red Scare; Assault on Social Security; DHS Ends TSA Officers’ Contract; Teachers and Schools; Call Script: Demand the Release of Mahmoud Khalil; More…

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Reader Comments: Mahmoud Khalil Arrest Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since Red Scare; Assault on Social Security; DHS Ends TSA Officers' Contract; Teachers And Schools Struggle To Help Children; Call Script: Demand the Release of Mahmoud Khalil;

Trump and Musk’s War on Workers

Joseph A. McCartin Dissent Magazine - Online Article
Organized labor and its allies can and must do much more to respond to the crisis created by DOGE and the Trump administration. As the nation’s largest employer, the federal government’s labor relations policies inevitably ripple across the economy.

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How Unions Can Help Shrink the Gender Wage Gap

Holly Corbett Forbes
Women in unions are paid higher wages and experience smaller wage gaps than non-unionized women. Unionized women who work full time are typically paid 19% more than women who are not in a union, resulting in them making roughly $10,000 more a year.

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Boeing Back in Bargaining – First Time in 16 Years

Don McIntosh Northwest Labor Press
Boeing was never cuddly, but old-timers remember a company led by engineers with an uncompromising focus on quality. In recent decades, leaders have shifted attention to stock buybacks and schemes to squeeze concessions out of workers and taxpayers.
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