April 28, 2014

Working Families Send Messages of Solidarity to Immigrant Workers on Hunger Strike

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AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka visited hunger strikers last week outside the White House who are protesting deportations that rip families apart from each other. We asked our mobile supporters to send messages of solidarity and encouragement to the hunger strikers. Here are some highlights from what you said: Keep up the fight. Hasta la Victoria. Carry …

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Ground Women’s Healthcare in Sound Health Policy, Not Ideology

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My name is Kate Wendland Duncan. I’m a registered nurse on a general medical-surgical unit at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. Nurses treat the physical, psychological, social and spiritual aspects of health and disease, and that puts us in a unique position to understand how health policy affects citizens both individually and holistically. As a nurse, …

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One Year After Rana Plaza, Safety Issues in Walmart Supply Chain Persist

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On the one-year anniversary of the deadly collapse of Rana Plaza, an eight-story factory in Bangladesh—one small component of the multi-billion dollar global garment industry—labor groups around the world are taking to the streets, chanting “never again.” In Bangladesh, family members of the over 1,100 garment workers killed joined former workers and protesters outside the site of the collapse, …

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Teachers Protest Gag Order on Common Core Tests

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Earlier in the month, a Brooklyn school principal wrote a New York Times op-ed protesting the gag order that testing company Pearson has put on teachers and administrators to prevent them discussing the content of the company’s new Common Core tests. According to Elizabeth Phillips, the test does “a poor job of testing reading comprehension,” and: In general terms, …

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FLOC Takes Fight for U.S. Tobacco Workers’ Rights to England

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Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) President Baldemar Velasquez will be in London, England, on Wednesday to urge British American Tobacco (BAT) to use its influence as a 42% stakeholder in Reynolds American Inc. (and a major customer) to persuade the company to respect and protect the human and workers’ rights of its migrant tobacco farm …

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Working Families Send Messages of Solidarity to Immigrant Workers on Hunger Strike

Ground Women’s Healthcare in Sound Health Policy, Not Ideology

One Year After Rana Plaza, Safety Issues in Walmart Supply Chain Persist

Teachers Protest Gag Order on Common Core Tests

FLOC Takes Fight for U.S. Tobacco Workers’ Rights to England

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