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  • Local News April 1, 2011

    We Are One Events Planned Around the Country – April 4th

    April 4th marks the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in Memphis. The sanitation workers were trying to form a union with AFSCME. Dr. King stood beside them because he knew the right to bargain collectively is every American’s right. He gave his life for the freedom to bargain, to vote, to afford

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  • Local News March 25, 2011

    The Republican Agenda – Crushing the American Worker

    In one of the most petty acts in the recent wave of anti-worker attacks from Republican governors and legislatures, Maine Gov. Paul LePage has ordered the removal of a 36-foot mural depicting the state’s labor history from the Department of Labor. On top of that, he is removing the names of renowned labor leaders from

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  • Local News March 11, 2011

    TCU Members Join the Rally in Wisconsin

    TCU members protested In Wisconsin to show our solidarity with the workers fighting for their collective bargaining rights. Even with all the protesting going on, in the dead of night, Wisconsin Senate Republicans rammed through a bill that strips Wisconsinites of the collective bargaining rights their parents and grandparents bargained for, marched for, went on

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  • Local News March 3, 2011

    TCU Members Attend Rallies Across the Country in Support of Wisconsin Workers

    In a strong show of solidarity TCU members in Boston, Trenton, Baton Rouge and many other locations attended rallies to support the Wisconsin workers, who are embattled to keep their rights to collectively bargain. TCU members wanted to show their support in this fight. Hundreds of members joined the thousands of our union brothers and

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  • Local News February 22, 2011

    New Jersey Workers Will Hold State House Unity Rally with Wisconsin Workers – Friday February 25

    Wisconsin workers have been fighting on the front lines against Governor Scott Walker’s assault on working families and collective bargaining rights. At the Trenton State House on Friday, February 25, 2011, at 12:00 noon, a group of Wisconsin workers will be welcomed by the New Jersey State AFL-CIO, national AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, hundreds of

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