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And the government shutdown looms one week away.

More than two-thirds of Americans support unions, according to new polling data the AFL-CIO released Tuesday. Union support is particularly high among young Americans: 88 percent of Americans younger than 30, according to AFL-CIO data. The public opinion research firm GBAO surveyed 1,200 registered voters between Aug. 1-8 on behalf of the AFL-CIO. Demographics were…

A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday rejected Starbucks Corp's challenge to a ruling requiring the coffee chain to rehire seven employees at a Memphis, Tennessee, store who were allegedly fired for supporting a union. The decision by the Ohio-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the first from an appeals court involving a nationwide campaign that has seen workers at more than 300 Starbucks locations vote to unionize. A three-judge panel said that by firing the workers last year, Starbuck...

Documents reveal some of the tactics deployed specifically against immigrants during union campaigns.

Perspective. wheres the president going to be tomorrow? speaking to a union. we know union support is the backbone of his candidacy. where is the vice president going to be tomorrow shes holding a rally on repr reproductive rights. this has been in the view of biden advisers, some of her strongest moments have been on this issue reproductive rights she led the campaigning on the abortion issue and thats what shes going to be doing tomorrow julie chavez rodriguez likely to be the campaign manager...

By saying we care about the city, the second city, we are the party of urban america, and we are going to really work to include everybody, i think it is great. >> greg: uh-oh, dana. >> dana: i think there is one main reason they went to chicago, and it is because they want union support. union support has been going down over the last couple of decades, and the other option was atlanta. so, why cant they go to atlanta? atlanta -- if i were them, if you are trying to gain more territory and have...

Strikes rose sharply this past year as more workers turned to organized labor to address their concerns about pay and working conditions.

Massachusetts’ Energy Facilities Sitting Board approved a special permit for a controversial electrical substation in East Boston. The permit allows the project to circumvent 14 final...

Programme Support Officer, Bosnia and Herzegovina Organization: UNDP Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina City: Sarajevo Office: UNDP HQ Sarajevo Closing date:...

Get union support to it on to another seat, get union support to it on to anotherseat, is get union support to it on to another seat, is this what this is about, is he using concerns for rail workers as a political position? that is an appalling thing to say. i have known sam for many years and he is a trade unionist through and through. all his life he has stood up through. all his life he has stood up for working people and been their voice and their advocate and he is just simply making sure ...