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“Norma Rae” Broadway Casting Director is Let Go for Unionizing

Norma Rae is coming to Broadway. By now, most of us are familiar with the 1979 movie starring Sally Field, which tells the story of a North Carolina textile factory worker who chooses to join a union in response to poor working conditions.

“Norma Rae” Broadway Casting Director is Let Go for Unionizing

We Are All Americans Forum to Help Foster Labor Solidarity

In a political climate where there is deliberate undermining of and hostility against poor and working class people - particularly labor and immigrant communities, it is more important than ever that union workers from all backgrounds come together to find common ground and build bridges.

We Are All Americans Forum to Help Foster Labor Solidarity

Tax Plan’s Biggest Cuts Could Be in Living Standards

A decade ago or so, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center and the liberal-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimated that making the Bush tax cuts permanent — rather than letting them expire in 2010 — would increase the after-tax

Tax Plan’s Biggest Cuts Could Be in Living Standards

Bank Deregulation Bill Will Leave Taxpayers Holding the Bag

These days, it’s hard to keep straight all of Congress’ efforts to build plutocracy — the further consolidation of the power of the richest Americans at the expense of the rest of us. 

Bank Deregulation Bill Will Leave Taxpayers Holding the Bag

NYC CLC In The News - 2017

NYC CLC In The News - 2017

Legal Aid Attorneys Rally to Protect Undocumented Immigrants

On Thursday, the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys, UAW Local 2325, took to the steps of Brooklyn Borough Hall with allies in the Labor Movement, community groups, and immigration advocates to speak out against the practice of ICE agents arresting and detaining undocumented immigrants as they ar

Legal Aid Attorneys Rally to Protect Undocumented Immigrants