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As the coal industry collapses, miners face losing their pensions

Leave a Comment / Coal Mining / By max cyril

June, the Trump administration unveiled one of its largest environmental rollbacks to date: replacing the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan rule, which regulated carbon pollution from power plants. The rule had been a favorite target of President Donald Trump as he stumped on the campaign trail and held presidential rallies. “We’ve ended the war on beautiful, clean …

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The Media Uses Coal Miners To Attack the Green New Deal—Then Ignores Their Pension Fight

Leave a Comment / Coal Mining / By max cyril

To stave off the worst effects of the climate crisis, at least 80 percent of coal reserves must stay in the ground, according to a conservative estimate in the journal Nature. This means that coal miners would see their already declining industry all but disappear. The Green New Deal, the resolution put forward by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and …

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I Work with Mark Janus. Here’s How He Benefits from a Strong Union.

Leave a Comment / Public Workers / By max cyril

Like everyone else in the labor movement, I’m nervously awaiting the Supreme Court ruling in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31, which would weaken public sector unions by letting workers receive the benefits of representation without contributing toward the cost. But I’ve got a unique vantage point: I work in the same building as the plaintiff, Mark …

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Transit Workers Reach Agreement to End Weeklong Strike in Philadelphia

LGBT Workers Face Rampant Discrimination, Higher Taxes and Receive Fewer Workplace Benefits

4 Comments / LGBT / By max cyril

87% of polled Americans believe it’s illegal under federal law to fire an employee just because that employee is gay or lesbian. They’re wrong. A new report demonstrates how 40 years of advocacy have yet to yield federal non-discrimination protections for LGBT workers. Instead of having a fair chance to get ahead, our existing federal laws result …

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It’s Time To Mobilize Workers’ Capital

Leave a Comment / unemployment, unions / By max cyril

Here’s a riddle: what large entity has the theoretical access to deploy a few trillion dollars, quickly, if given the chance? If you answered the Chinese or US governments, thank you for playing and please try again another time. The answer: labor unions. Piling up around the world is the largest and most accessible source …

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Hostess Blames Union For Bankruptcy After Tripling CEO’s Pay

Leave a Comment / economy, unions / By max cyril

Today, Hostess Brands inc. — the company famed for its sickly sweet dessert snacks like Twinkies and Sno Balls — announced they’d be shuttering after more than eighty years of production. But while headlines have been quick to blame unions for the downfall of the company there’s actually more to the story: While the company …

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The Truth About Public Employees, the New Convenient Scapegoats

Leave a Comment / Public Workers / By max cyril

It’s become a common refrain: public employees from teachers to parking meter attendants to firefighters to nurses are bleeding state and local budgets dry with exorbitant wages and pensions. As recent news reports and communiqués by conservatives have pointed out, a portion of public sector employees do earn what many middle- and working-class Americans would …

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