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Of Course Teachers Want Schools to Reopen

Daniel DiSalvo asks: “Will Unions Let Schools Reopen?” (op-ed, June 30). Of course! The AFT published our school reopening plan in April.

Of Course Teachers Want Schools to Reopen

The Fullest Look Yet at the Racial Inequity of Coronavirus

Racial disparities in who contracts the virus have played out in big cities like Milwaukee and New York, but also in smaller metropolitan areas like Grand Rapids, Mich., where the Bradleys live. Those inequities became painfully apparent when Ms.

The Fullest Look Yet at the Racial Inequity of Coronavirus

Tri-County COPE adopts MD State and DC AFL-CIO Resolution #9, Workers Bill of Rights

Tri-County Committee on Political Education (COPE), a splinter group of the Metro Washington Council, AFL-CIO has adopted Maryland State and DC AFL-CIO Resolution #9, Workers Bill of Rights.  Details were circulated as follows...........................

Tri-County COPE adopts MD State and DC AFL-CIO Resolution #9, Workers Bill of Rights

Trumka: The AFL-CIO Must Fight for Trans Lives Inside and Outside the Labor Movement

This month’s historic Supreme Court ruling that LGBTQ employees are protected in the workplace by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was another step forward in the march for equality.

Trumka: The AFL-CIO Must Fight for Trans Lives Inside and Outside the Labor Movement

What Is Owed: Without Economic Justice, There Can Be No True Equality

Race-neutral policies simply will not address the depth of disadvantage faced by people this country once believed were chattel. Financial restitution cannot end racism, of course, but it can certainly mitigate racism’s most devastating effects.

What Is Owed: Without Economic Justice, There Can Be No True Equality

AT&T is Using the Pandemic as an Excuse to Cut Thousands of Jobs

AT&T is Using the Pandemic as an Excuse to Cut Thousands of Jobs