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AFL-CIO Joins CWA Call for $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 and the entire union movement to support this campaign in every industry.

17, Dec, 2017

Tax Plan’s Biggest Cuts Could Be in Living Standards

A decade ago or so, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center and the liberal-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimated that making the Bush tax cuts permanent — rather than letting them expire in 2010 — would increase the after-tax

13, Dec, 2017

Bank Deregulation Bill Will Leave Taxpayers Holding the Bag

These days, it’s hard to keep straight all of Congress’ efforts to build plutocracy — the further consolidation of the power of the richest Americans at the expense of the rest of us.

08, Dec, 2017

Washington State’s Innovative Aerospace Apprenticeship Program Touted

As National Apprenticeship Week kicks off, a new report from the Working for America Institute and Jobs With Justice Education Fund profiles a Washington state apprenticeship program as a suc

14, Nov, 2017

Democrats Have An Ambitious Plan To Help Rebuild Labor Unions

As a pillar of the Democratic Party, unions have wanted for years to see mainstream Democrats push for major reforms to the law that would rejuvenate the ranks of organized labor.

02, Nov, 2017

Un-American Attack on Workers' Unions is the Sad New Normal for Sandoval County

Even though Sandoval County's "Right to Freeload" ordinance is not on the October 19th agenda, we still need you there to speak out and tell commissioners to stop wasting tax payer money and attacking our family's wages with this anti-worker ordinance, so called "right to work."

17, Oct, 2017