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Trump Is Waging a War On Labor Unions, But You Wouldn’t Know It from CNN’s Dem Debate

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Last night, CNN and the New York Times co-hosted a Democratic debate in Westerville, Ohio—and even by the standards of the mainstream media, the omissions were glaring. There were no questions about police violence, affordable housing, Israel, or the climate crisis. However, there was a softball question about friendship inspired by the bond between Ellen …

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How Bernie Sanders would give power to workers in their companies

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Bernie Sanders unveiled a multi-pronged plan Monday aimed at giving more power to workers in their companies, ending corporate greed, breaking up monopolies and increasing taxes on big businesses. “For more than 40 years, the largest and most profitable corporations in America have rigged the tax code and our economy to redistribute wealth and income …

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Brazilian and U.S. Workers Confronting Common Threat Build Solidarity in the Global Labor Movement

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This week, the AFL-CIO joins much of the global labor movement in Brazil to participate in the 13th Congress of Brazil’s largest labor organization, the Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT). Fred Redmond, AFL-CIO vice president and United Steelworkers vice president for human affairs, is leading the AFL-CIO delegation. Addressing the entire congress, Redmond pointed out …

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The Powerful New Idea in Elizabeth Warren’s Labor Platform

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On Thursday, Elizabeth Warren released her long-awaited labor platform, titled “Empowering American Workers and Raising Wages.” The plan provides unions with a long wish list of badly needed reforms and new powers. It also makes a solid case that, like Bernie Sanders, she would be the labor movement’s biggest booster in the White House in …

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Trump’s New Labor Pick Eugene Scalia Will Be a Catastrophe For Workers Rights

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Working women and men need and deserve a Secretary of Labor—somebody who will look out for their interests, protect them from unscrupulous employers, set strong health and safety standards, and safeguard their retirement security. Unfortunately, corporate lawyer Eugene Scalia, the man named by President Trump to be the next Secretary of Labor, is not that …

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49,000 Striking Auto Workers Should Vote No on “Two-Tier.” Here’s Why.

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Auto workers on strike since midnight at General Motors are between a rock and a hard place—a hugely profitable company making outrageous demands for concessions and a union leadership that made no plan for winning a strike and has not even told members what they’re going out for. Picket signs say simply “UAW on Strike.” …

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Trump labor board’s drive to hurt temp and fast food workers hits another conflict-of-interest snag

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Donald Trump’s National Labor Relations Board and its counsel have made it their mission to roll back every advance for workers from the Obama years. The joint-employer rule—which makes companies responsible, under certain circumstances, for workers employed through franchises and staffing agencies—is a major piece of that. In the rush to roll back the joint-employer rule, ProPublica’s Ian …

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Uber claims California gig economy law won’t apply because drivers aren’t central to Uber’s business

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The California Senate passed a bill reining in gig economy abuses on Tuesday night, and by Wednesday afternoon, before Gov. Gavin Newsom had a chance to sign it, Uber had already come out to say that it was confident the new law wouldn’t apply to Uber drivers, and also Uber had already allocated tens of millions of …

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People of color surge into majority of new hires in U.S. for the first time

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The U.S. workforce has passed a milestone: New hires of prime working-age people are now majority people of color. And women workers are a key to that trend. (Donald Trump just shuddered twice and he doesn’t know why.) “Minority women began to pour into the labor market in 2015, and they have begun to reshape the …

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Classifying Workers as Independent Contractors in California is About to Become Harder

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The California Legislature is poised to pass Assembly Bill 5, an act that will reclassify up to two million California independent contractors as employees.  All indications are that the bill will pass in the coming days.  In an op-ed piece published in the Sacramento Bee on Labor Day 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom expressed his …

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Madeline Messa

Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.

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