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Union Heavy States Deliver for Biden
After two years of campaigning, it looks like the 2020 election is going into overtime. The decision on whether former Vice President Joe Biden will defeat Trump seems to be more and more likely as...
Newly Elected Republicans, Not Friends of Labor
The 2020 election has brought a few surprises. It would appear that while the White House is still up in the air, Democrats will hold the House of Representatives and the Republicans will hold...
AFL-CIO: Count Every Vote
As Americans head to the polls on Election Day, U.S. Chamber of Commerce CEO Thomas J. Donohue, National Association of Evangelicals President Walter Kim, AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka and...
You Get What You Pay For
Think back to the 2016 presidential election: Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump; “love her,” “hate her;” “I’m not voting because she can’t lose”;...
Trump's Four Year War on Labor
For nearly four years, Trump has waged a war on labor. Readers of UCOMM Blog might remember when he went after federal pensions, or cut OSHA inspections, or put a PATCO strikebreaker in charge of the...
Trump Will Sign National Right to Work Law
Could Right to Work become a national law? That is the promise that is being made by the National Right to Work (RTW) Committee in a series of print ads running in Alabama. The ads are in support...
Trump Has Undermined Unions for Four Years
The editorial below was written by Perry Fuchs, a teachers union President. According to the American Federation of Teachers, our current President has done everything in his power to...
Pull Together for the Betterment of the Union
CWA Local 1298 as an organization is all about labor and promoting and fighting for issues that are in the best interest of our great organization. Labor unions are under attack by Corporate America...
Joe Biden and a New Way of Governing
This editorial was written by former Maryland Governor and Presidential Candidate Martin O'Malley. If you’ve been watching television lately, you’ve now seen the Biden Ad. It...
Building Trades Endorse Biden
Today, North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) formally endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris for President and Vice President of the United States. The...