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Working People at their Best as Hurricane Harvey Delivers Havoc in Major Portions of Texas; Here’s One Way to Help

Working People at their Best as Hurricane Harvey Delivers Havoc in Major Portions of Texas; Here’s One Way to Help

Hurricane Harvey, a storm of historic proportions, is the biggest natural disaster working people in Texas have faced.
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Richard Trumka: Why I Quit Trump’s Business Council

Richard Trumka: Why I Quit Trump’s Business Council

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump stood in the lobby of his tower on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and again made excuses for bigotry and terrorism, effectively repudiating the remarks his staff wrote a day earlier in response to the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Va.
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Lori Pelletier: ‘Either you respect collective bargaining or you don’t’

Lori Pelletier: ‘Either you respect collective bargaining or you don’t’

Lori J. Pelletier, the president of the Connecticut AFL-CIO, raised eyebrows by organizing a picket line outside the state Democratic Party’s annual fundraiser last year to protest a Democratic governor and legislature for opting to lay off unionized state workers instead of raising taxes on the rich.
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