On Monday, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka joined President-Elect Joe Biden, Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris and leaders from the business community and labor movement to share the federation’s vision for how to […]
California officials on Monday pulled what they characterized as an emergency brake, announcing a dramatic rollback of reopening in much of the state as it broke its single-day record for new coronavirus cases. Once the changes go […]
More than a million people applied for unemployment insurance benefits again last week, including 709,000 people who applied for regular state UI and 298,000 who applied for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance. PUA is the federal […]
Amid a flurry of new campaigns and initiatives launched in the wake of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, a pair of Democratic congressmen who are both decades-long union members announced on Friday the creation of a Labor Caucus […]
“One new name on the list of people being seriously considered for the job is Boston Mayor Marty Walsh,” writes Robert Kuttner in The American Prospect. “Bloomberg first reported on Wednesday that Walsh was in the running. […]
President-elect Joe Biden made sure that the voices of working people will be heard in the transition to his administration. He appointed more than two dozen leaders from the labor movement to the various agency review teams […]
The AFL-CIO’s post-November 3 survey shows 58% of unionists voted for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Union members favored the Democratic ticket by 21 points, compared to the overall vote, which shows the electorate backed Biden by 3 points. […]
Worker advocates and former labor officials say they believe President-elect Joe Biden will push to revamp and strengthen the federal agency charged with enforcing workplace safety soon after taking office in January, a significant shift […]
After the company he co-founded notched a decisive victory on Proposition 22 in November 3rd’s election, Lyft President John Zimmer said he’s ready and willing to return to the California Capitol and work out a deal that allows the unions […]
Factoring in capital gifts, endowments, funding for education programs and other special gifts, the long-gestating Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has now met — and, in fact, exceeded — its pre-opening fundraising goal […]
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