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Cleveland Clinic cancels healthcare for striking Lutheran Hospital workers
Cleveland Clinic cancels healthcare for striking Lutheran Hospital workers
Union labor is the key to energy goals – and avoiding blackouts
Union labor is the key to energy goals – and avoiding blackouts
When residents and businesses across Oregon and Washington flip a light switch, charge an electric vehicle, or power up a computer, few stop to consider where that electricity comes from — or whether it will be there tomorrow. Northwest state and federal policymakers, however, should be thinking about these questions every day. And the answer is increasingly clear: Meeting the growing demand for more electricity, keeping clean energy commitments, and sustaining the regional economy requires permitting and building new electricity transmission.
Lawmakers Join Unions in Push to Overturn Trump Pay Freeze
Lawmakers Join Unions in Push to Overturn Trump Pay Freeze
How Trump Has Lowered the Wages of American Workers
How Trump Has Lowered the Wages of American Workers
On June 6, 2025, Donald Trump’s White House staff issued an upbeat statement proclaiming that what it called the “Trump Effect” was creating “higher pay for American workers.” The reality, though, is that Trump, during his second term in office, has deliberately reduced the wages of millions of workers and, despite substantial inflation, frozen the wages of millions more.
State & Local
State & Local
Appalachian coal miners ask lawmakers in DC for better disability benefits and worker protections
Appalachian coal miners ask lawmakers in DC for better disability benefits and worker protections
Retired miners, their families and policy groups are lobbying Congress to uphold worker protections and pass legislation that updates black lung disability programs.
BlueCollarWriter Commentary & Analysis
BlueCollarWriter Commentary & Analysis
By Matt Alley, BlueCollarWriter Labor Media
We keep hearing the word affordability like it is some mysterious economic condition that wandered into town and refuses to leave. Groceries cost too much. Housing costs too much. Insurance costs too much. Utilities cost too much. Childcare costs too much. Hell, at this point, breathing probably has a convenience fee attached to it. And the response is usually some variation of we need to make things more affordable. Well, sure. But there is something missing from that conversation: affordability isn't only about what things cost. It's also about what working people make.
When the Government Spies on Labor, Democracy Is the Target
When the Government Spies on Labor, Democracy Is the Target
There is something deeply disturbing about the federal government deciding that labor unions, community organizations, churches, nonprofit groups and ordinary people exercising their First Amendment rights are worthy of surveillance simply because they oppose government policy.
That is not a partisan concern. It should be a democratic one.
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