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A Pro-Union Case for Steel Tariffs

United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard on how tariffs could benefit American workers.

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A Pro-Union Case for Steel Tariffs

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When Corporations Don’t Take Precautions To Avert Workplace Deaths, the Answer Must Be Prison

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Want to Solve the Steel Crisis? Change the Rules

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Trade Deals Like the TPP Are Murdering American Manufacturing

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Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS Group Now Has the Same Tax Designation as the Red Cross or Humane Society

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Michigan GOP Gov. Rick Snyder Values Big Business More Than Children’s Lives

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A Holiday Recipe for Economic Equality—in Just 7 Simple Steps!

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Blame Anyone but the Corporations: GOP Fear-Mongering Distracts from the TPP

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The TPP Won’t Just Cost Workers Jobs—It Could Cost Them Their Lives, Too

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Unless You’re a Corporation, Nothing Good Will Come of the Trans-Pacific Partnership

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Rich Guy’s Inequality Fix: Raises for Workers. Just Kidding! It’s ‘Give Free Stuff to Rich Guys’

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How United Airlines’ Rapacious, Scandal-Ridden CEO Screwed Over His Own Company

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The Six-State Steelworker Fight Back Against Corporate Lockouts and Exploitation

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China’s Currency Devaluation Protected Its Workers—Something the U.S. Doesn’t Bother With

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Indiana University Health Nurse Who Wanted to Unionize Fired—Then Un-Fired

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Donald Trump and the GOP Put Individual Wealth Over Strong Communities

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Jeb Bush Wants to Whip Workers Into Shape, But Not Corporations and the Idle Rich

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CEOs Should Stop Complaining: Obama’s New Overtime Rule Is Long Overdue

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Why Republicans Should End Their Losing Battle Against Obamacare

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America Needs a New Vision for Trade—Not More Fast-Track Deals Benefitting the Rich

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New NY Times Poll Finds Americans Are Pretty Pessimistic About Beating Big Money in Politics

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Politicians Keep Promising Free Trade Agreements Can Protect Workers. We Should Stop Believing Them.

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Forced Trade and the Damaging Effects of the Trans-Pacific Partnership

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Bill de Blasio Proposes a National Progressive Agenda to Rewrite the Rules of American Inequality

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America’s Abusive Relationship with Free Trade-Obsessed Politicians

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On Workers Memorial Day, Remembering the Words of Dead Workers

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The Undemocratic Job-Killing Trade Scheme That Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership

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The Courage of Low-Wage Workers On Strike

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Broad Support for LGBT Rights Somehow Caught Republican Governors By Surprise

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Foreign Trade Rules Are Killing Jobs and Communities. They Need Fixing Now.

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The GOP’s Latest Big Squeeze on American Workers

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When These GOP Governors Run for President, Remember Their Contempt for Workers

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Striking Oil Workers Are Fighting for Safe Communities, Not Just Better Conditions for Themselves

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Oil Striker: “None of us wants to be the next person to lose his life for no good reason”

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Whether in Greece or the U.S., It’s Clear: Austerity Doesn’t Work

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Hey Sen. McConnell: Don’t Fast Track the Trans-Pacific Partnership

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We Don’t Just Need ‘More Jobs’—We Need Higher Wages

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The GOP Is Trying To Take Health Care Away from Millions of Americans

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‘Right to Work’ Benefits CEOs, Not Workers

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American Society’s Real Moochers: CEOs

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Wall Street and Major Retailers Agree That Inequality is Killing Us. Why Don’t Republicans?

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Happy Halloween from the GOP

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Precarious Academic Workers Are Pushing Back Against the Tenuous Track

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Senate Republicans Unanimously Oppose Ending One Percenters’ Control of Elections

The GOP says yet again that control of our political system by the ultra-rich is just fine, thank you.

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Why Labor Matters in the Fight for Racial Justice

Black workers' struggles in the labor movement have won important gains—including transformation of unions themselves.

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It’s Time To Send the GOP a Message

Republicans have proved once again that they're out of touch with what Americans want.

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No Independence for Workers This Fourth of July

Liberty and justice for all? Not quite.

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