Monthly Archive: February 2017

Feb 13

Rapid Response Action Call

      A Department for Labor or a Department Against Labor? Weigh in on Andrew Puzder’s nomination for Secretary of Labor by calling your Senators at 877-607-0785.   In late July 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression and early months of FDR’s presidency, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins spent time touring steel …

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Feb 04

TPP REVOKED

  TPP Withdrawal Good First Step Toward Building Trade Policies that Benefit Working People AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka made the following statement about the withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): Last year, a powerful coalition of labor, environmental, consumer, public health and allied groups came together to stop the TPP. Today’s announcement that the US …

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