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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...
How Trump's White House Failed the American Worker
With a week to go until election day, unions across this nation are doing their best to talk sense into some of their members who still plan on voting for Trump. The organized labor vote is not as...
Trump Wants to Destroy the Civil Service
The American Federation of Government Employees, the largest union representing federal and D.C. government workers, says an executive order issued yesterday by President Trump will undermine decades...
Marvel and Home Depot Give Big to Trump
For the last four years, Trump has been hitting up his rich friends, getting them to finance his campaign. In return, these donors got special treatment from Trump, like meetings in the White House...
Racism and Fear: Why Republicans Will Lose
This editorial first appeared in Newsday. I have been a Republican for decades. I was raised and educated in the rural South in the early 1940s. As a Jew, I was beaten up in schoolyards because...
Barrett: Saying the N Word Doesn't Create a Hostile Work Environment
This week the Senate Judiciary Committee has been questioning Trump’s appointment to the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barret. The 48-year-old justice previously served on the United States Court of...
UCOMM PAC Launches Energy Ad
With just a few weeks left before the 2020 election, UCOMM PAC has launched a new ad targeted at swing state electrical workers. The ad “When I Think of Climate Change I Think of Jobs”...
Biden Administration: Labor's Saving Grace
According to Politico, former Vice President Joe Biden is working with unions much more than any other Presidential candidate in recent memory, giving them hope that a Biden Presidency will mean good...
Pelosi: Dems to Meet About 25th Amendment
Following Trump’s diagnosis of COVID-19 and the subsequent erratic behavior by Trump on Twitter, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has told House members that they will meet on Friday to discuss...
Trump Ends Stimulus Negotiations
Months of negotiations between the White House, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were upended on Tuesday when Trump took to Twitter to announce that he was...