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Southwest Airlines this week announced that it would be awarding its employees with a $1,000 bonus following the passage of the GOP tax bill, which the company’s board of directors said would “result in meaningful corporate income tax reform.” Union leaders say it hardly makes up for years of unfair treatment. “We applaud Congress and …

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AFL-CIO Joins CWA Call for $4,000 Wage Increase for Working People

Leave a Comment / TaxCuts / By max cyril

The Donald Trump administration repeatedly has claimed that its tax bill would result in a $4,000 wage increase for working people. Today, the AFL-CIO has joined a campaign by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) to demand corporations guarantee this raise in writing. The labor federation is rallying the power of its 12.5 million members …

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Don’t Pass Huge Tax Cuts for the Wealthy on the Backs of Working People

Leave a Comment / TaxCuts, Uncategorized / By max cyril

Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate have proposed a job-killing tax plan that favors the super-rich and wealthy corporations over working people. We cannot afford to let this bill become law. Here’s why this plan is a bad idea: Millions of working people would pay more. People making under $40,000 would be worse off, on average, …

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Republicans want to give corporations yet another tax cut and call it paid family leave

Leave a Comment / paid family leave, Uncategorized / By max cyril

Americans want paid family leave—something people in most nations around the world already get. So it sounds like something to cheer that there’s a paid family leave provision in the Senate Republican tax plan, right? Yeah, no. This is very much a Republican family leave proposal, which is to say it’s a giveaway to big …

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GOP Smash-And-Burn Tax Plan Does Nothing for Workers

Leave a Comment / TaxCuts / By max cyril

Congressional Republicans are selling a trickle-down tax scam times two. It’s the same old snake oil, with double hype and no cure. A single statistic explains it all: one percent of Americans – that is the tiny, exclusive club of billionaires and millionaires – get 80 percent of the gain from this tax con. Eighty percent! But …

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Disney is using ‘tax cut bonus’ to try to force union workers to accept low pay

Union to Southwest: $1,000 worker bonuses don’t make up for years of stagnant pay

AFL-CIO Joins CWA Call for $4,000 Wage Increase for Working People

Don’t Pass Huge Tax Cuts for the Wealthy on the Backs of Working People

Republicans want to give corporations yet another tax cut and call it paid family leave

GOP Smash-And-Burn Tax Plan Does Nothing for Workers

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