All posts tagged "Labor"
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2.5KElectionsWhat Does Labor Want in the 2024 Presidential Election?
Past labor union loyalties In response to the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt built a winning coalition for Democrats in the 1930s....
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2.6KElectionsWhat Does Labor Want Today?
“We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed;...
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3.2KLabor or UnionsWhat Does Labor Want? A United Auto Workers Contract
How did we get here? 2007In response to the severe 2007 financial crisis the UAW accepted a contract that froze wages for...
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3.3KLabor or UnionsArbitration and Mediation
“America is barreling towards a summer of strikes,” says a headline in the Seattle Times. Union workers in the post-pandemic economy are...
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2.5KLabor or UnionsWhat Does Labor Want? A UPS Contract
During the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been a significant surge in online shopping and home deliveries, resulting in increased pressure on shipping...
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2.6KLabor or UnionsThe Current 2023 SAG and WGA’s Strike: The Battle for Creative Rights Continues
Once again, the entertainment industry finds itself embroiled in a relentless clash for creative rights and the just treatment of its professionals....
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3.1KLabor or UnionsWomen Leading the Labor Movement: Mary Kay Henry
Mary Kay Henry is the first woman to lead Service Employees International Union. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a union...
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3.2KLabor or UnionsWomen Leading the Labor Movement: Roberta Lynch
Roberta Lynch became Executive Director of AFSCME Council 31 in 2014. AFSCME Council 31 represents more than 90,000 active and retired state,...
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Women Leading the Labor Movement: Frances Perkins
As a student at Mount Holyoke College, Frances Perkins, born in 1880, studied the working conditions in a factory. Perkins later remembered...
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Women Leading the Labor Movement: Sara Nelson
Sara Nelson has served as the International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO since 2014. The AFA represents fifty thousand...