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Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. AFL-CIO’s April 8 Day Of Action for ProAct floods Congress with calls and texts April 9, 2021 9:44 AM CDT By Mark Gruenberg Liz Shuler, Secretary Treasurer of the AFL-CIO, announced that the campaign for the pro Act will continue big time on all forms of social media. In an Ap...

TRADE unions in the United States have called a national day of action this week to push senators to pass the Protect the Right to Organise (Pro) Act. Union confederation the AFL-CIO named Thursday as the day when activities in support of the Act will be held nationwide. The legislation, which has been passed by the House of Representatives, would expand the definition of employees to extend workplace rights to more workers, legalise solidarity industrial action and ban employers from resorting...

Bidens Infrastructure Package Is Designed to Boost Unions 04/03/2021 | 09:09am EDT Send by mail : Message : By Kate Davidson and Amara Omeokwe WASHINGTON -- President Bidens $2.3 trillion plan to invest in infrastructure, clean energy and caregiving over the coming decade would be a boon for construction workers, truck drivers, electricians and home health aides. Both critics and supporters of the initiative say it will also benefit another group: labor unions. Some business g...

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POLITICO Infrastructure push sets off feeding frenzy in Washington The White House’s rollout of the biggest infrastructure package in at least five decades has sparked a lobbying frenzy in Washington. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has privately told Democrats that she hopes the package can pass the House by the Fourth of July. | Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images Link Copied President Joe Biden has laid down his opening bid on infrastructure: a sprawling and ambitious $2 trillion plan designed to re...

Biden’s infrastructure push sets off feeding frenzy in Washington POLITICO 9 hrs ago By Megan Cassella and Theodoric Meyer © Evan Vucci/AP Photo President Joe Biden delivers a speech on infrastructure spending at Carpenters Pittsburgh Training Center, Wednesday, March 31, 2021, in Pittsburgh. President Joe Biden has laid down his opening bid on infrastructure: a sprawling and ambitious $2 trillion plan designed to rebuild the country’s roads and bridges, expand access t...

© Getty Images During a public health and economic crisis, the last thing Congress should be doing is passing laws that hit the breaks on our recovery, kill jobs and hurt small businesses. Unfortunately, House Democrats did exactly that last week by passing the PRO Act, nationalizing the policies that continue to drive workers and businesses out of my home state of California. The COVID-19 pandemic has left businesses unable to keep their doors open and families struggling to pay rent and put ...

AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool California Labor Secretary Julie Su should not be running an ice cream truck, let alone be a Deputy Secretary of Labor. She allowed 30 billion of fraud to happen on her watch, and was part of the misinformation campaign with the State’s Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program which costs thousands of unemployed contractors from benefiting from it. We cannot say the same for convicted felons, who benefited richly. Su is also the enforcement arm for the AB5 law, ta...

By Jeff Angelo Mar 15, 2021 Attorney Alan Ostergren joins Jeff as a Congressional committee makes another move toward possibly unseating Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks and replacing her with her opponent, Rita Hart; Jeff updates listeners on his visit with his mom in assisted living and the status of Iowans stimulus payments; Representative Randy Feenstra reports an attack on Iowa labor laws; Brent Willett of the Iowa Health Care Association answers listener questions about visits to ...

(AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma) You may or may not have heard of the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, but even if you have, there’s a solid chance that you don’t know what this cursed piece of legislation does in full. In short, it effectively hands the American working class over to the Unions, whether you want to be in a Union or not. The House pushed the PRO Act through in a rush in order to take advantage of a crisis that Democrats didn’t want to go to waste. It was a rush job ...