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 Alabama House of Representatives, led by District 16 Representative Kyle South passed this Resolution in support of coal miners in Alabama.

Gerard: Republicans Working Against Workers

In the Huffington Post, United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard writes that "[e]ver worsening is the chasm between the lo

Bloomberg BNA: Trump Team Unlikely to Fight for NAFTA Worker Safety Rewrite

“NAFTA is a disaster,” Celeste Drake, a trade and globalization policy specialist at AFL-CIO, told Bloomberg BNA. “We don’t think it needs to be tinkered with.

Becker: The Trump Administration Has Given Up on American Workers

“I am your voice” — that’s what Donald Trump promised American workers at the Republican National Convention last July. Yet this month, the Trump administration took an unprecedented step toward quelling the voices of workers.

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Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect, 2017

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Alabama Labor Archives & History

Goal of the Alabama Labor Archives and History is to identify, evaluate, collect, preserve, and provide access to material of labor significance in Alabama

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Why I Quit Trump’s Business Council

Salon: School’s out: Teachers union chief Randi Weingarten says Trump leads “most anti-public-education” administration ever

A strong educational system is the bedrock of a healthy democracy. There is a corollary to this fact: A poorly educated public is more likely to be tempted by tyrants, more easily seduced into believing that avarice, greed and consumerism are virtues, and will more readily betray the common good. In many ways, an educational system that does not encourage critical thinking and speaking truth to power is doing the work of authoritarianism.

People's World: AFL-CIO Executive Council Backs Medicare for All

A strong endorsement of government-run single-payer Medicare for All as the ultimate solution to U.S. health care ills highlighted position statements from the just-concluded summer AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting.

The American Prospect: The Perils of $7.25

A federal minimum-wage increase is the clearest and most effective way to raise pay for millions of low-wage workers. As a recent EPI report states, a $15 federal minimum wage by 2024 would restore its lost value and by 2019 would be worth more than the historic inflation-adjusted high point of 1968. An estimated 22.5 million workers would see an increase in pay.

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Alabama Labor March On Mississippi

March On Mississippi

Special "Thanks" to all of our affiliates for supporting the employees in thier organizing campaign at Nissan North America in Canton, Mississippi.

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Don't Repeal the Persuader Rule

Tell the Department of Labor not to repeal the persauder rule--a rule that requires companies to disclose expenditures for activities designed to dissuade employees from forming a union.

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