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Resources for Furloughed Workers

Resources for Furloughed Workers

25 Jan, 2019

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Resources for Furloughed Workers

United Way, one of the AFL-CIO’s national partners, supports 2-1-1, a free nationwide information and referral line that helps people including furloughed workers find local resources they may be eligible to obtain 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Resources for Furloughed Workers

Los Angeles Teachers Have Approved a Contract to End Their Six-Day Strike

23 Jan, 2019

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23 Jan, 2019

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Los Angeles Teachers Have Approved a Contract to End Their Six-Day Strike

Teachers overwhelmingly approved a new contract Tuesday and planned to return to the classroom after a six-day strike over funding and staffing in the nation’s second-largest school district.

Los Angeles Teachers Have Approved a Contract to End Their Six-Day Strike

UFCW Local 1500 Members Welcome New Brothers and Sisters at King Kullen

UFCW Local 1500 Members Welcome New Brothers and Sisters at King Kullen

18 Jan, 2019

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UFCW Local 1500 Members Welcome New Brothers and Sisters at King Kullen

UFCW Local 1500 members have produced a new video welcoming brothers and sisters from King Kullen stores (recently acquired by Stop & Shop) into the Local 1500 union family, and making sure they know that are are not alone in this new chapter in their work lives.

UFCW Local 1500 Members Welcome New Brothers and Sisters at King Kullen

Slate Ratifies First Union Contract

Slate Ratifies First Union Contract

18 Jan, 2019

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Slate Ratifies First Union Contract

Slate’s 51-member editorial and podcast staff this week ratified its first collective bargaining agreement with the Writers Guild of America, East.

Slate Ratifies First Union Contract

A Manufactured Crisis

17 Jan, 2019

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17 Jan, 2019

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A Manufactured Crisis

Eight hundred thousand workers. That is the number of government employees and contractors impacted by President Trump’s shutdown of the federal government.

A Manufactured Crisis

‘Pay the Workers, Furlough Trump’: Federal Workers Rally for End to Shutdown

16 Jan, 2019

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16 Jan, 2019

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‘Pay the Workers, Furlough Trump’: Federal Workers Rally for End to Shutdown

Furloughed federal employees and out-of-work contractors greeted one another Thursday with a sarcastic nickname that, on the 20th day of a partial government shutdown, captured their feeling of powerlessness: “Hello, fellow pawns.”

‘Pay the Workers, Furlough Trump’: Federal Workers Rally for End to Shutdown