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Congress to debate further COVID relief
A months-long impasse over a next round of COVID relief is threatening workers, businesses, state and local governments, and the U.S. Postal Service.
Labor confronts police brutality
Union members are taking part in protests, joining morning-after cleanup parties, and even walking off the job in support of Black Lives Matter.
National union statements on the George Floyd killing and protests
Many national unions and union leaders have issued statements on the police killing of George Floyd and the nationwide protests in response. Here are some of them.
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.Â
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.
