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The Federal Trade Commission issued a new rule Tuesday imposing a nationwide ban on noncompete agreements that prevent employees from quitting their jobs and going to work for “competitor” ...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Apr 24, 2024 at 12:52 PM PDT
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Organized labor has just won an historic victory as Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted overwhelmingly to join the United Auto Workers, marking the first time a foreign-owned auto plant in the South has become unionized. It’s also a...
by Charles Jay
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on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 06:40 AM PDT
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Unions that were substantially responsible for bringing factory workers into the Middle Class in the 1950s and 1960s have established a foothold in the anti-union South with the Successful vote at a Tennessee Volkswagen plant. Collective Bargaining is...
by Grandpa Fred
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on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 05:02 AM PDT
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On Friday, President Joe Biden gave a nearly 20-minute speech to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Construction and Maintenance at its conference in Washington, D.C., touching on ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Apr 19, 2024 at 04:00 PM PDT
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A cartoon by Clay Bennett.
by Clay Bennett
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on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 11:54 AM PDT
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Recently I was elected to be the representative for my district’s substitute Teacher’s union. It’s been years since we had a rep for our unit. I’m the first in a long time.�
I’ve been ...
by jtg
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on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 08:13 AM PDT
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Over the weekend, “60 Minutes” aired a piece on Moms for Liberty, the conservative “watchdog” group that has inspired absurd book bans across the country. Two of the founders of the group, ...
by Walter Einenkel
310 comments
on Mon Mar 04, 2024 at 04:00 PM PST
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You all here on DK who want Texas to secede: Why do you hate us Texas Democrats and Progressives so much that you advocate illegal action to consign us to die in a third world country? What did we ever do to you that you want us to suffer? What...
by Gardening Toad
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on Sun Feb 18, 2024 at 03:30 PM PST
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Welcome to DKos Asheville. This space appears each weekend to share links to news and opinion from Asheville and Western North Carolina. The floor is open for comment and discussion. Wishing all a ...
by randallt
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on Sat Feb 17, 2024 at 09:00 AM PST
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On Wednesday, online news site The Messenger shut down abruptly. The site, which expired after less than a year of operation, represents one of the biggest failures in online journalism after ...
by Mark Sumner
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on Sun Feb 04, 2024 at 04:00 PM PST
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Hi all, Some of you may have read my posts and such. I'm a Rural Progressive in Central Pennsylvania, (Centre County). I'm in the county of Pennsylvania that shows up as a blue dot on the map when they show elections in the state. The county itself is...
by RobertZeigler
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on Mon Jan 29, 2024 at 05:32 PM PST
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Marjorie Taylor Greene stressed that she wants a national divorce between red states and blue states see also: Trump in Las Vegas: "We got Mexico to send two thousand, twenty eight thousand troops" news.yahoo.com/… Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for 'national divorce' between red and blue states amid Texas border standoff over migration Marjorie...
by ca cokz
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on Sun Jan 28, 2024 at 01:57 PM PST
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Update: I was contacted by the ONA about this article after it posted yesterday, and they request I hold off for a day until they had a chance to make their strike notice official. I certainly don’t want to make their jobs harder, so I was happy to do...
by DoctorBeast68
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on Wed Jan 24, 2024 at 10:03 AM PST
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Monday it’s back to school after a two week break. And in addition to all the things I have to do to have successful classes, I’ve got burdens galore. Let me talk about them and my worries.
by zenbassoon
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on Sat Jan 06, 2024 at 07:00 PM PST
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The tragedy, 110 years ago on Christmas Eve in Italian Hall in Calumet Michigan, must never be forgotten. There were two sides in conflict at the time, the rich mine owners backed by their ruthless strike breakers and the miners striking against...
by CorpFlunky
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on Sat Dec 23, 2023 at 11:22 AM PST
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The Washingtonian reports that over 700 Washington Post employees, represented by the Washington Baltimore News Guild, are planning for a one-day strike on Thursday, December 7, amid planned layoffs at the newspaper. From their letter to readers: Our...
by AChris
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on Tue Dec 05, 2023 at 07:19 PM PST
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On Thursday, Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien went on Fox News with host Neil Cavuto to talk about labor issues and also address his ongoing feud with Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma. It seems O’Brien really got under the...
by Walter Einenkel
135 comments
on Thu Nov 16, 2023 at 03:33 PM PST
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Tens of thousands of Las Vegas hotel workers set a deadline Thursday for a sweeping strike, threatening major disruptions to the city's economic backbone that could coincide with the Strip's ...
by Associated Press
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on Sun Nov 05, 2023 at 06:59 AM PST
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When President Joe Biden joined striking auto workers on the picket lines in September, he took a gamble by making the strongest pro-union show of solidarity of any sitting U.S. president in history ...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Thu Nov 02, 2023 at 11:30 AM PDT
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The conventional wisdom was physicians don’t need to unionize. We are highly paid professionals. We have power and autonomy. While we remain highly paid, our power and autonomy has rapidly evaporated over the last several years. We have lost our...
by bumper monster
41 comments
on Fri Oct 13, 2023 at 03:52 PM PDT
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