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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...
Betting on Wage Gains
The Biden administration is hoping that employers will increase wages to bring workers back into the job market and to help stimulate the economy. Read more about this below from the AP.
White House Union Task Force Holds First Meeting
In April, UCOMM reported on President Biden creating the first-ever White House Taskforce on Worker Organizing and Empowerment. The task force was created to find new ways for the White House to...
100 Days of Helping Workers
Thursday, April 29th marked the 100th day that Joe Biden has been President of the United States. The first 100 days have been used as a benchmark since President Franklin Roosevelt on how successful...
AFL-CIO Launches PRO Act Ads in Arizona
The AFL-CIO launched a major, bilingual ad campaign in Arizona this week, airing statewide television and radio ads promoting the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. The advertising campaign...
Biden Creates Task Force to Promote Unions
When he was running for office, President Biden promised to be the most Pro-Union President ever. In his first few months in office, he has tried to live up to that by repealing anti-union executive...
Unions to Dems: No PRO Act, No Money
With the PRO Act still short of the votes that are needed to pass the PRO Act, unions are ramping up the pressure on undecided Senators to get the bill passed. This includes a week of action and a...
Making Union Dues Tax Deductible
This story was originally written by the IBEW Media Center. Four years after the income tax deduction for union dues was ripped out of the U.S. tax code, pro-worker lawmakers are fighting to bring...
Mineworkers Union Supports Biden's Green Energy Plan
One of the biggest impediments to President Biden’s climate plan has done a 180 and is now supporting the plan. The United Mineworkers of America (UMWA) announced this week that they support...