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CHICAGO—What its chair called “a time of upheaval and militancy in the labor movement” has prompted the Communist Party USA’s Labor Commission, in a two-day meeting in Chicago, to draft plans for mass action by the party and its allies in both unions and non-union working-class organizations...
WASHINGTON—Tough-minded federal Judge Tanya Chutkan, handling the government’s trial against Donald Trump for his conspiracies and the Jan. 6, 2021, coup d’état and insurrection, had a blunt message for the former Oval Office occupant and his lawyers: “Your client’s defense is supposed to...
WASHINGTON—The latest steps by Trump-named Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to cut Postal Service costs by cutting service have drawn bipartisan flak from Capitol Hill and prior protests from USPS workers from Medford, Ore., to Newburgh, N.Y. And from the Postal Rate Commission, too.
COLUMBUS, Ohio—In a victory for democracy and abortion rights, Ohio voters, in a heavy turnout in the middle of “the dog days of August,” defeated a right-wing-pushed state constitutional amendment that, if passed, would have permanently ended a woman’s right to choose in that state.
WASHINGTON—Saying 28 million U.S. workers would get a pay raise, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt., plus 29 other senators, introduced legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $17 an hour by 2028, and entirely eliminate the so-called “tipped minimum wage,” raising those workers to minimum-w...