A trade or labor union is a collective of workers who have banded together for the purpose of negotiating better wages, benefits and working conditions with management.
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Scott Cox sprinted across the field, slogging through ankle-deep water, to where his parents’ house stood moments before. He found a mountain of debris from the EF5 tornado, a milk truck that the unusually powerful twister had flung into the yard, and...
by David McCall
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The Supreme Court is hearing another abortion case. What could go wrong? It’s just people’s lives on the line. GOP lawmakers vote to arm teachers a year after Nashville shooting Protesters in the galleries chanted “blood on your hands!” Cartoon:...
by Daily Kos Staff
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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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The United Auto Workers union prevailed in a watershed representation election at Volkswagen’s Tennessee factory. American labor unions have mounted a campaign across traditionally employer-dominated, ant-union states in the South and West. So-called...
by Wilson Dizard III
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on Fri Apr 19, 2024 at 07:50 PM PDT
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Tom Bixler and several hundred of his co-workers produced top-quality glassware at the Libbey Glass plant in Toledo, Ohio, over the years while keeping the aging equipment there operating through sheer grit. They even set efficiency standards despite...
by David McCall
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on Thu Apr 11, 2024 at 08:33 AM PDT
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In the wake of Boeing’s cabin panel blowout in the Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, and the resignation of its CEO Dave Calhoun, aircraft manufacturer Boeing has been forced to do what it has not done in 16 years: join contract talks with the biggest union...
by averagemec
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on Sat Apr 06, 2024 at 07:51 AM PDT
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Hey, Troy Miller here, Democratic candidate for West Virginia House of Delegates in District 98. (Find the original post and video HERE ) It's been a moment since we've done one of these posts and there's a lot I'd like to talk about, but we want to...
by TroyNMiller
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on Thu Apr 04, 2024 at 01:40 PM PDT
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James Crawford served five years in the U.S. Marine Corps maintaining the radar systems on super-sophisticated warplanes built to fend off enemy attacks from air, sea and land. But not once during his time in numerous ports as far away as Asia did he...
by David McCall
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on Mon Mar 25, 2024 at 10:40 AM PDT
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Wed. (�Mar. 6), VP Kamala Harris was in Madison, Wisconsin�to announce a new� Executive Order on scaling and expanding the use of registered apprenticeships in industries and the ...
by lpeacock
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on Tue Mar 12, 2024 at 05:00 AM PDT
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The widowed single mom attacked grocery shopping with the doggedness of a Marine on a mission. To provide for her family in the face of corporate price-gouging, she bought off-brand items and selected eggs for protein instead of higher-costing meat....
by David McCall
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on Fri Mar 08, 2024 at 10:41 AM PST
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There are “billionaires,” and then there are billionaires. Unfortunately, sometimes they share the same delusions.
On Saturday, watchers of private-jet traffic noticed that Elon Musk’s plane ...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Mar 06, 2024 at 10:00 AM PST
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J.D. Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy, defines a certain segment of the rural / Appalachian cultural group through the lens of his own family history and his own right-wing views of it. When he applies these views to the culture as a whole, our mainstream...
by Walk In the Woods
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on Sat Mar 02, 2024 at 06:00 AM PST
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The Republican Party might have changed a lot between Ronald Reagan railing against “ Mr. Gorbachev ” and Donald Trump being a starry-eyed fanboy of Vladimir Putin , but some things never change.
by Mark Sumner
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on Thu Feb 29, 2024 at 06:30 AM PST
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Democratic policies are wildly popular, yet voters don’t seem to realize it. Republicans are great at using fake outrage and scandals to distract people from their terrible policies. Meanwhile, as noted countless times here on DKos, Democrats struggle...
by voidstuff
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on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 11:33 AM PST
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A serious milestone was reached Tuesday when a majority of workers at a Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Alabama, signed union cards. It was the result of a recently launched organizing drive by the United Auto Workers in nonunion plants, particularly in...
by Charles Jay
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on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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Tanya Gaines and her co-workers launched a union drive 10 years ago because it was the only way to win livable wages, fair treatment and safe working conditions at the Golden Dragon copper tube manufacturing plant in Pine Hill, Ala., one of the state’s...
by David McCall
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....those scrolls of paper that are needed to print receipts. How exciting! RU srs this is a diary? The employee working the desk was able to send an e-receipt, which -- thankfully -- worked. I'm not fond of adding to an already cluttered inbox, but at...
by Clio2
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on Thu Feb 15, 2024 at 06:57 AM PST
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This is reposted from Regional Labor Review, Fall 2023. It is based on research for my upcoming book from SUNY Press, Class-Conscious Coal Miners: The Emergence of a Working-Class Movement in Central Pennsylvania. Between 1920 and 1950, Central...
by Alan Singer
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on Wed Feb 14, 2024 at 10:05 AM PST
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As President Joe Biden and that other guy fight for union votes and endorsements in the run-up to the November election—Biden by touting his historically robust labor record and Donald Trump ...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Sat Feb 03, 2024 at 01:05 PM PST
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Christopher Betterley arrived at the Altamont Veterans Facility in Buffalo, N.Y., a few years ago needing a home, a haircut and a fresh start after treatment for alcohol use. He saw a sign tacked to the shelter’s dining room wall advertising jobs at...
by David McCall
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