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Walk in My Shoes: My Union Vacation
Submitted by: Thomas Hefner, Greensboro, NC My wife and I took a trip to Washington DC over Memorial Day for her birthday. I wrote the following a few days after our return. I am sure I left something out but I tried to think of all the unions that touched our lives....
Workers are Winning with Biden Administration’s PoliciesFar Right’s Project 2025 Policy Agenda Threatens To Undo Progress
The Center for American Progress (CAP), an independent, nonpartisan policy institute, reports workers are “winning a greater percentage of NLRB-overseen union elections than at any point in the past 15 years as Biden administration appointees help protect workers’...
What’s at Stake in November? Your Union Rights and Maybe Even Your LivelihoodsWhy Union Members Should Reject Donald Trump in November
As the United States approaches another critical election, the decision facing union members is clearer than ever: Donald Trump’s presidency was a relentless assault on workers’ rights, economic security, and the values that unions uphold. Here’s why union members...
In Historic Election, 27 Thousand Fairfax County Teachers and Staff Unionize
Teachers, bus drivers, custodial staff, and food service workers in Fairfax County, Virginia, have voted to unionize, marking a pivotal moment for the union movement. The 27,000 new union members voted overwhelmingly to elect the Fairfax Education Association...
Reich Proclaims, ‘we are witnessing a historic rebirth of the labor union movement’
In a recent op-ed on the online blog AlterNet, former Secretary of Labor (1993-1997) Robert Reich predicts, “the pendulum will continue to swing towards unions.” Reich, a staunch advocate of labor, wrote the article after the United Auto Workers won their election at...
