"Working people want unions and the numbers prove it," says one labor leader. "While billionaires and their yes-men in Congress try to slash wages, gut health care, and silence working people, we are fighting back.
Rallies from Alaska to Hawaii will highlight cuts to wages, unions and social safety nets under Trump policies
The national day of action aims to stop the ultra-rich and the Trump administration from union-busting, attacking working families.
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Most Americans today know that Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968, but few know why he was there. King went to Memphis to support African American garbage workers, striking to gain recognition for their union.
Even if the movement isn’t rebounding quite yet, green shoots are abounding—and presidential candidates ignore it at their peril.
Staff demand wage increases and reversal of pandemic-era cutbacks that impose ‘painful’ working conditions
We need to rebuild the labor movement, and that means not going back to the kind of unions that existed in the postwar era. We need unions with a radical vision, unions that exert power in the workplace and society.
Unprecedented Corporate Greed Demands Unprecedented Worker Response
Every walkout, every outstretched hand, every word written or spoken in defense of workers' rights, is a victory—whether it results in immediate and obvious success or not.
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