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March Madness is rapidly approaching. The men’s college basketball championship�is a big business for the National Collegiate Athletic Association, which pulls in about�$1 billion per year from ...
by Charles Jay
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on Fri Mar 08, 2024 at 01:22 PM PST
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Union busting has been�the norm in much of corporate America as companies like Jeff Bezos’ Amazon and Elon Musk’s Tesla ...
by Charles Jay
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on Wed Mar 06, 2024 at 06:00 AM PST
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Guest: Rich Templin of Florida AFL-CIO Also: NY A.G. may seize Trump building to cover fines; Biden forgives another $1.2B in student loans... Don't forget to laugh out loud next time you hear a Republican pretending to oppose "Big Government...
by TheBradBlog
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on Wed Feb 21, 2024 at 07:12 PM PST
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This post originally appeared on the Kentucky State AFL-CIO website. By BERRY CRAIG AFT retiree Politico's Sam Sutton reported that right-wing JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon wants Democrats to rally 'round Nikki Haley in the GOP presidential primaries...
by Berry Craig
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on Thu Nov 30, 2023 at 02:26 PM PST
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This story first appeared on the Kentucky State AFL-CIO website. By BERRY CRAIG AFT retiree President Joe Biden praised United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain as a union "leader with a backbone like a ramrod" who's "done one hell of a job." Fain is...
by Berry Craig
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on Mon Nov 27, 2023 at 12:20 PM PST
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Stand with Starbucks strikers Thursday during "Red Cup Rebellion"
by Progressive Democrats of America
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on Thu Nov 16, 2023 at 06:37 AM PST
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A novel partnership among three labor unions to organize tens of thousands of airline workers could set a national example.
By John Ruch for Capital & ...
by Capital and Main
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on Wed Sep 20, 2023 at 08:22 AM PDT
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About 13,000 U.S. auto workers stopped making vehicles and went on strike Friday after their leaders couldn’t bridge a giant gap between union demands in contract talks and what Detroit’s three automakers are willing to pay. Members of the United Auto...
by Associated Press
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on Fri Sep 15, 2023 at 05:53 AM PDT
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Good day and welcome to DKos Asheville. This is the weekly Open Thread for Saturday, September 9th, 2023 This space appears each weekend to give readers a variety of links to local and regional news of interest, and opens the floor for comment and...
by randallt
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on Sat Sep 09, 2023 at 10:00 AM PDT
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Members of AFL-CIO unions joined striking writers and actors on the picket lines Tuesday in New York, Los Angeles, and other cities in a National Day of Solidarity to support the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA. As a retired member of the...
by Charles Jay
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on Wed Aug 23, 2023 at 08:20 AM PDT
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The growing diploma divide stands as one of the most striking developments of the past few years. As recently as when the Clintons lived in the White House, Republicans held a solid advantage among ...
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Wed Aug 30, 2023 at 06:00 AM PDT
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As an emergency department nurse, I can tell you from firsthand experience that the last few years have been rough. I’ve written about it time and time again here. Written predictions as far back as 2020 that turned out to be distressingly accurate....
by SquireForYou
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on Mon Feb 06, 2023 at 07:19 AM PST
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Black workers have always been part of the labor movement, but unions must prioritize anti-racist practices and make room for Black leadership.
By Brenton Zola
This article was originally ...
by Prism Guest Writer
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on Thu Dec 08, 2022 at 08:15 AM PST
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Jason Lopez, President of the Austin AFL-CIO Labor Council, reports that on November 16, 2022, the council unanimously adopted a resolution calling for the protection of Traditional Medicare by stopping and dismantling ACO REACH. The resolution was...
by kaytillow
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on Sun Nov 20, 2022 at 11:17 AM PST
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It is World Soil Day . What can one say, this is borderline fatuous. Industrial agriculture destroys the soil. If we humans wish to have significant amounts of healthy soil remaining, we have to ...
by enhydra lutris
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on Mon Dec 05, 2022 at 06:06 AM PST
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The fact is that unions give people a ticket to the middle class. Big businesses dominate the economy. For example, the top four domestic airlines collected 41 percent of the industry’s revenue 10 years ago; today they collect 65 percent. It’s the same...
by Dem
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on Wed Sep 21, 2022 at 06:16 PM PDT
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The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Daniel Donner, and Cara Zelaya, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James ...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Wed Sep 14, 2022 at 06:09 AM PDT
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The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Daniel Donner, and Cara Zelaya, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar. Subscribe to...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Fri Aug 05, 2022 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Morning Digest: House GOP spends $1 mil to prop up top recruit ahead of primary for key Arizona seat The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Daniel Donner, and Cara Zelaya, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James ...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Tue Jul 26, 2022 at 05:00 AM PDT
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The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Daniel Donner, and Cara Zelaya, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James ...
by Daily Kos Elections
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