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PRO Act, biggest labor law reform in decades, headed for House vote March 5, 2021 10:52 AM CDT By PAI
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., joined by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, speaks during a news conference about the PRO Act at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 5, 2020. The bill passed the House in the last Congress but was never even considered by the Republican Senate. It comes up for a vote again next week. | J. Scott Applewhite / AP
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Corporations, lawmakers collude in new multi-state ‘right to work’ offensive February 23, 2021 10:04 AM CDT By Tom Conway
Workers protest before Gov. Scott Walker s passage of right to work in Wisconsin in March 2015. Corporations and right-wing lawmakers in several states are preparing a new right to work offensive. | Peter Gorman / Flickr (CC)
Dave Dell Isola, the son and grandson of union members, grew up grateful for the family-sustaining wages and benefits that organized labor won for working people.
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Why the Alabama Amazon struggle matters to workers everywhere February 19, 2021 9:25 AM CDT By C.J. Atkins
Michael Foster of the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union holds a sign outside the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., Feb. 9, where labor is trying to organize workers. | Jay Reeves / AP
Sometimes a fight at one particular workplace can be so important that workers and their allies everywhere need to take notice. The struggle going on right now at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, is one of those fights.
Screen shot from video of Our Revolution Virginia Monthly Meeting. | Facebook
For the third consecutive year, labor and allies in Virginia are preparing for a fight to remove the state’s “Right to Work” law from the statute books.
On Saturday, January 16, the Virginia Our Revolution organization sponsored an online kickoff meeting featuring progressive Democratic Party members of the General Assembly (Virginia’s state legislature) and labor leaders to get behind a Bill, House Bill 1755, in the House of Delegates, the lower house of the General Assembly. This bill would repeal Virginia’s longstanding “Right to Work” statute, which is seen by organized labor as a major obstacle to unionization in Virginia.