All posts tagged "union"
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2.6KElectionsWhat 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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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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3.2KLabor 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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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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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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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...