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I Am 2018 - On February 1st, honor the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers & their fight for justice

50 years ago this April 4th, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Senate Bill to Curtail Labor Rights on Tribal Land Falls Short

Noam Scheiber on Tuesday, April 17 - 12:25pm

Organized labor managed an increasingly rare feat on Monday — a political victory — when its allies turned back a Senate measure aimed at rolling back labor rights on tribal lands.

The legislation, called the Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act, would have exempted enterprises owned and operated by Native American tribes from federal labor standards, even for employees who were not tribal citizens.

Philadelphia AFL-CIO supports the campaign for a Fair Workweek

Nick Alpers on Thursday, April 12 - 5:27pm

Philadelphia City Council has played a leading role in the fight to support our city's working people. In the last 5 years, Council has responded positively to grassroots campaigns, passing forward-thinking legislation to guarantee working Philadelphians paid sick leave, and protecting Philadelphia's workers from wage theft. Organized labor was proud to join each of those campaigns, and proud of our City Council for setting those higher standards.

How Does Your State Stack Up on Pay Equity for Women?

Charisse Jones on Wednesday, April 11 - 11:11am

The notion of bringing home 80 cents for every dollar pocketed by a man on a national basis is unsettling enough. But it's even more startling when those lost wages are added up.

Overall, it amounts to $10,000 in lost wages a year, says Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women and Families. That chunk of cash could pay for 14 more months of child care, 74 more weeks of groceries and an additional 10 months of rent for the average woman.

Want To Carry On Martin Luther King Jr.’s Work? Join A Union

Lindell Lawrence on Wednesday, April 11 - 10:57am

Fifty years ago this week, Martin Luther King Jr. went to Memphis, Tennessee, to march with the city’s striking black sanitation workers. Wages were bad, and conditions were so unsafe that workers were seriously injured or even killed while using the trash compactors of their trucks. The city of Memphis, their employer, refused to do better; city officials refused to act to improve their wages or safety.

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