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Teamsters Join March for Voting Rights
This post was written by the Teamsters. The Teamsters are renewing their commitment to voting rights and racial equality with its participation in this year’s March on Washington on Aug. 28...
Biden Refuses to Invite Tesla to White House
Last week, President Joe Biden invited representatives from the largest American automakers to the White House for the signing of an Executive Order (EO) setting a goal of having 50% of new cars sold...
UPS Employee Arrested for Storming Capital
Seven months after the attack on the United States Capital, yet another union member has been arrested for taking part in the attack on the Capital. Last week Donald Smith, a UPS employee at their...
Two More DC Cops Commit Suicide
This story was written by USA Today The Senate unanimously voted Tuesday to award members of the United States Capitol Police and D.C. Metropolitan Police the Congressional Gold Medal ...
Biden Announces Huge Buy American Change
When President Joe Biden was elected he named one of his priorities as bringing jobs back to the United States and promoting Buy American. Now seven months into his term, he has proposed a massive...
IBEW Local Hosts Vice President
This story was written by the IBEW Media Center. Business Manager Mike Dunleavy had less than four days’ notice before Kamala Harris, Marty Walsh and an entourage of aides, media...
Senate Dems to Include Important PRO Act Provision in Budget Bill
With the PRO Act seemingly stuck in the mud, lacking a majority of Democratic Senators' support and lacking any Republican Senators supporting it, Democratic Senators are coming up with a way to...
Unions Launch Ad Campaign against Senator Johnson
A group of 20 unions and progressive organizations are launching a massive ad campaign against Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson over his response to the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol...
Trades to Biden: Fund Child/Elder Care
This editorial was written by Fatima Goss Graves, the president and CEO of the National Women's Law Center andSean McGarvey the president of North America's Building Trades Unions, a labor...
Biden Picks Union Lawyer for NLRB
Although a spot does not open on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) until the end of August, President Biden has made an early announcement that he will fill that deciding seat with a longtime...