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Since 2020, redistricting has made Oregon's 5th Congressional District more favorable terrain for progressives.

HR 3076 would end the $5 billion yearly prepayment of future retirees’ health care costs, a requirement which causes nearly all USPS losses.

Joe Biden isn’t getting a lot of love these days. But so far the record is clear: Labor has never had such a friend in the White House.

It’s one of the most far-reaching settlements to date after Amazon was found guilty of trampling workers’ rights to unionize.

Kellogg’s, one of America’s most recognizable brands, is courting a lasting public backlash in its response to a strike now in its third month.

The new law spends $1.2 trillion over five years to upgrade bridges, highways, rail, transit, ports, airports, water systems, and more.

Labor Secretary Marty Walsh visited Kellogg's strikers, and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack came out to a John Deere picket line.

No contract? No Corn Flakes. About 1,400 Kellogg’s workers in Mich., Neb. Penn., and Tenn. struck Oct. 5 after months of mandatory overtime

#Striketober? Over 100,000 workers are on the verge of striking, and the mood is very resolute. They’re not kidding around.

The Senate confirmation votes, mostly along party lines, will give the NLRB a worker-friendly majority once again.

“This is a historic achievement to secure the pension benefits of hardworking union members, and the most substantial policy ever passed to further the solvency of our nation's multiemployer pension plans,” said U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh in a July 9 press statement about newly issued rules implementing a government rescue of failing pension funds. Walsh, pictured above at a June 24 event in Indianapolis, is a former leader of Laborers Local 223 and the Boston Building Trades Council.

The Biden Administration continues to name union figures to top government positions. The latest two appointments will oversee trade policy.

Officially federal labor law is supposed to encourage collective bargaining, but Biden says the government "has not used its full authority.”

President Biden is asking Congress for $2 trillion in federal investment in infrastructure, research, training and home care over a decade.

Marty Walsh, sworn in as labor secretary March 23, is the former head of Laborers Local 223 and the Boston Building Trades Council.

Signed into law March 11, a year after COVID was declared a pandemic, the $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill took effect almost immediately.

The just-passed COVID relief bill will rescue and restore over 100 declining union pension plans.

The U.S. House passed the PRO Act—labor’s top priority—March 9. Five Republicans joined all but one Democrat voting yes.

With Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama voting on a union this month, Joe Biden speaks out: Unions built the middle class, not Wall Street.

Continuing a string of overtures to the labor movement, Biden announced a pro-union NLRB nominee and reversed Trump moves on apprenticeship.