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GOP Law Fails to Break Iowa's Largest Public-Sector Unions

desmoinesdem Bleeding Heartland
One of the most transparent union-busting provisions of Iowa’s new collective bargaining law has failed to significantly reduce the number of workers covered by the state’s two largest public-sector unions: the Iowa State Education Association and AFSCME Council 61.

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Canadian, U.S. Unions Push for Wage Hike Amid NAFTA Talks

Ginger Adams Otis New York Daily News
Labor leaders in the U.S. have made it clear they are supportive of a NAFTA overhaul — but only if it helps eliminate the wage gap with Mexico and includes Canada’s long-shot demands for labor reform.

Labor's Stake in the Fight for Veterans' Health Care

Suzanne Gordon and Ian Hoffmann Labor Notes
A grassroots resistance to Trump Administration VA privatization schemes is being mounted by AFGE union members many of whom, at the VA, are veterans themselves,

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Trump vs. Graduate Workers

Trish Kahle Jacobin
The University of Chicago is fighting its graduate union tooth and nail — with a little help from the Trump administration.

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Unions Aren't Obsolete, They're Being Crushed by Right-Wing Politics

Livia Gershon VICE
A new report lays out how effective the assault on organized labor has been. The decline of unions—which now represent just over one in ten US workers, down from one in five from 1983—has been less about their value for workers than the result of a concerted effort to destroy the labor movement.

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Every Day Is Labor Day

Jason Pramas Dig Boston
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