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Labor Voices: GM Leaves Workers' Futures Uncertain

25 Jan, 2019

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25 Jan, 2019

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Labor Voices: GM Leaves Workers' Futures Uncertain

The focus of General Motors’ November announcement shutting down plants in Lordstown, Ohio; Hamtramck and Warren, Michigan; and Baltimore, Maryland shouldn’t be about money. It should be about people.

Labor Voices: GM Leaves Workers' Futures Uncertain

It’s Not a Shutdown, It’s a Lockout and a Shakedown of Federal Workers

25 Jan, 2019

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25 Jan, 2019

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It’s Not a Shutdown, It’s a Lockout and a Shakedown of Federal Workers

Most media outlets continue to portray the federal “shutdown” as a political fight between a president who once said he would be proud to provoke a standoff and congressional leaders who ha

It’s Not a Shutdown, It’s a Lockout and a Shakedown of Federal Workers

Los Angeles Teachers Have Approved a Contract to End Their Six-Day Strike

23 Jan, 2019

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23 Jan, 2019

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Los Angeles Teachers Have Approved a Contract to End Their Six-Day Strike

Teachers overwhelmingly approved a new contract Tuesday and planned to return to the classroom after a six-day strike over funding and staffing in the nation’s second-largest school district.

Los Angeles Teachers Have Approved a Contract to End Their Six-Day Strike

A Manufactured Crisis

17 Jan, 2019

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17 Jan, 2019

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A Manufactured Crisis

Eight hundred thousand workers. That is the number of government employees and contractors impacted by President Trump’s shutdown of the federal government.

A Manufactured Crisis

‘Pay the Workers, Furlough Trump’: Federal Workers Rally for End to Shutdown

16 Jan, 2019

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16 Jan, 2019

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‘Pay the Workers, Furlough Trump’: Federal Workers Rally for End to Shutdown

Furloughed federal employees and out-of-work contractors greeted one another Thursday with a sarcastic nickname that, on the 20th day of a partial government shutdown, captured their feeling of powerlessness: “Hello, fellow pawns.”

‘Pay the Workers, Furlough Trump’: Federal Workers Rally for End to Shutdown