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President Obama proposed a “middle class economics” agenda in his State of the Union speech which included child care tax credits, paid sick leave, a raise in the minimum wage and free community college. President Obama on Tuesday night delivered a State of the Union address full of advocacy for working families, including fighting inequality,
Read moreIAM Western Territory Grand Lodge Representative Steve Cooper gives a speech on mass employment vs. mass incarceration at the 2015 AFL-CIO Martin Luther King, Jr., Civil and Human Rights Conference in Atlanta. IAM Western Territory Grand Lodge Representative Steve Cooper gives a speech on mass employment vs. mass incarceration at the 2015 AFL-CIO Martin Luther
Read moreAnti-union South Carolina Republican Gov. Nikki Haley used a significant portion of her annual State of the State address Wednesday night to attack workers trying to organize with the IAM at Boeing’s North Charleston, SC plant. Haley, as she has numerous times as governor, showed no respect for the federally-protected rights of workers in her
Read moreLast night in his State of the Union address, President Obama told Americans that “we should write [the] rules” for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Today is your chance. Add your voice to the many thousands to tell Congress “Say No to Fast Track” today in a national call-in event. Use the AFL-CIO’s toll-free hotline, 1-855-712-8441,
Read moreAtlanta-based Delta Flight Attendant Spencer Hayes brought the crowd to its feet at the AFL-CIO’s 2015 MLK Civil and Human Rights Conference in Atlanta as he passionately spoke about the Delta Flight Attendants’ historic movement to attain collective bargaining rights at Delta Air Lines. At the AFL-CIO’s annual event commemorating Martin Luther King Jr.’s labor
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