All posts tagged "Labor"
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Labor or Unions
This is Not Your Father’s Labor Movement
Once upon a time, the labor movement focused on organizing industrial trade jobs, jobs that mainly employed men. Stereotypical union representatives were...
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Labor or Unions
What Does Labor Want? The Illinois Workers Rights Amendment
“What Does Labor WantWhat Does Labor Want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails, more books and less guns, more learning and...
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2.5KLabor or UnionsLiz Shuler and the Future of Organized Labor
Liz Shuler was elected the AFL-CIO’s first female president in August after longtime leader Richard Trumka unexpectedly passed away. Shuler said, “Rich...
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Labor or Unions
Meet Scabby
President Biden’s proposed infrastructure plan is designed to create union construction jobs. The administration is very supportive of unionization efforts. We can expect...
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Labor or Unions
Good Faith Bargaining
Good Faith Bargaining The Biden administration is committed to economic growth through union jobs. Recent years have seen anti-worker legislation undercut the...
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Labor or Unions
What Else Does Labor Want?
We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals;more learning and less vice;more leisure and less greed; more justice...
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Labor or Unions
What Does Labor Want?
Labor leader Samuel Gompers was once asked, ‘What does labor want?’ He responded: “We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books...
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Political Education
…The Good Is Oft Interred With Their Bones.
Dateline West Branch, Iowa The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library October 2019 October, 2019 marks the 90 anniversary of the Stock Market Crash...