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Hot Nurses, Babbling Bernie Sanders and Windmill Cancer
Feeling the Bern yet? Sanders proposes a swift change to national labor law while skipping out on the Building Trades Legislative pow wow in DC. Prevailing wage legislation failed to pass in New York...
Sanders Skips Building Trades Legislative Conference
This week, leaders from the Building and Construction Trades Council met in Washington D.C. for their annual legislative conference. A mainstay at the event are elected officials and candidates for...
Bernie Sanders Vows to Ban Right to Work
On Monday, the International Association of Machinist (IAM) heard from Senator and Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders at their Transportation Department conference in Las Vegas.
"I'm from a Family who knew the Frightening Power Employers have over Workers"
This post came from Bernie Sanders Instagram. My experience as a kid, living in a family that struggled economically, powerfully influenced my life and my values. Unlike Donald Trump, who shut...
Bernie Sanders Proposes the Stop Walmart Act
Many politicians like Trump have touted the “strong” economy. They claim that since Wall St. seems to be hitting record highs every day, the economy must be doing well, yet many Americans...
Understanding What Co-Determination Is
Reforms can be radical one day, then common sense the next. The most popular reforms of the past century, such as collective bargaining rights and Social Security, started that way. How many times...
The CWA Pickup Truck Tour
At the final stop of the 2017 Midwest Pickup Tour, CWAers and CWA President Chris Shelton, Senator Bernie Sanders, and other activists and union members called on President Trump to keep his campaign...
They watched their co-worker die
On a warm, sunny Saturday, thousands marched through Canton Mississippi, demanding the right to join a union. While marches in Mississippi may not be rare, a union rally is and one at a foreign...
Moving the disenfranchised
New York, NY - Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination this year was “the most significant left political insurgency in American politics in 50 years,...
Moving the needle
In May, Paul Feeney was one of nearly 40,000 Verizon workers walking picket lines every day, fighting for fair treatment alongside his brothers and sisters at IBEW and the Communications Workers of...