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Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz are rallying voters across the Midwest this week, looking to build on support from key union leaders as they promote a message of pro-labor ...
Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, daughter of a Teamster and a solid pro-labor legislator, is Trump's pick for Labor secretary. Can she swim against the GOP's anti-union tide?
Vice President Harris and President Biden will appear together in Pennsylvania at a Labor Day campaign event Monday as the vice president seeks to shore up support from union workers ahead of ...
But having a union ally atop the Labor Department doesn’t necessarily mean the agency would pursue a pro-worker agenda. Labor secretaries can’t enact any major reforms without a green light ...
Affiliated with the labor movement, [2] [3] [4] the EPI is usually described as presenting a left-leaning and pro-union viewpoint on public policy issues. [5] [6] Since 2021, EPI has been led by economist Heidi Shierholz, the former chief economist of the Department of Labor. EPI has an advocacy arm, EPI Action, which is a 501(c)(4) group.
While fully 35% of the American non-agricultural labor force were members of trade unions in 1945, lack of a union presence in the South prevented pro-union majorities from gaining power in Congress, allowing pro-business Republicans and conservative Southern Democrats to work together to stymie organized labor's political agenda. [4]
Biden is facing a backlash from a core of rail workers and allied groups, some of whom see a betrayal in the bill he pushed to avert a rail strike.
The Protecting the Right to Organize Act, also known as the PRO Act, [1] [2] follows a series of past legislation passed by Congress concerning labor rights. A number of landmark bills were passed during the New Deal period, including the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which President Franklin D. Roosevelt considered one of the most important Acts of Congress at the time.