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Jeff Merkley talks COVID-19

The U.S. Senator says even the $2 trillion package Congress just passed won't be enough to deal with the economic implosion.

Congress to the rescue

At 883 pages, the recently passed stimulus package is a complicated $2 trillion piece of legislation. Here are its key provisions.

Construction industry exempted in final rule on Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship Programs (IRAPs)

After a huge union outcry, the Trump administration backed off a plan that would have weakened apprenticeship programs—in construction anyway.

U.S. House passes labor law reform

The PRO Act would restore the power of workers to unionize, bargain collectively, and strike.

Democrats–and Herrera-Beutler–vote to cut drug prices

The bill allows Medicare to negotiate with drug companies to get lower prices on insulin and single-source brand-name drugs that don’t have generic version.

Mobile monopoly?

Communications Workers of America is denouncing last month’s decision by the Trump Justice Department to allow a takeover by T-Mobile of its rival Sprint, which would leave Americans just three wireless providers to choose from.

Union approval near 50-year high

The Gallup polling organization reported Aug. 28 that 64% of Americans approve of labor unions.

‘Seizing the memes of production’

A tidal wave of union organizing is sweeping online and print media.

Trump names Eugene Scalia as his pick for new Labor Secretary

AFL-CIO blasts the choice — a former WalMart lawyer and son of union nemesis Antonin Scalia.

Building trades sounds alarm on DOL apprenticeship proposal

In June, the U.S. Department of Labor proposed to give private organizations free rein to create new watered-down standards and self-certify subpar apprenticeship programs.

Democrats: Which side are you on?

Forty Senate Democrats and 130 House Democrats are committing to a dramatic re-write of America’s broken labor law.

Heart to heart with U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley

Oregon millworkers son Jeff Merkley is one of labor’s most reliable champions in the Senate. I visited his office to talk labor policy — and whether he’s running for president. We also talked about immigration, climate change, trade, Medicare for All, and taxing the rich and much more. 

A union-busting billionaire mulls a run for president

A Seattle-area unionist has bitter memories of Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz.

Shutting down the shutdown

In the end, it was action by aviation workers that led Trump to end the shutdown.

Trump labor bureau appointments: Still vacant

At the Labor Department, half the top jobs remain unfilled.

Federal workers are bearing the burden of the Trump shutdown

With the partial government shutdown in its third week, an estimated 800,000 federal employees are having to cope with missing paychecks.

House Democrats plan to restore ‘Labor’ to the name of the labor committee

For 25 years, the committee's name has gone back and forth when leadership changed hands between Democrats and Republicans.

Trump to appeal ruling striking down anti-union executive orders

The executive orders are aimed at weakening federal employee union representation and making it easier to fire federal employees.

Trump denounces America’s top labor leader … on Labor Day

The tweet was in reaction to an appearance on Fox News Sunday by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.

Federal judge strikes down Trump’s anti-union executive orders

The orders aimed at the federal workforce would have limited the use of “official time” by union stewards, ended progressive discipline and seniority rights, and made it easier to fire workers.
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