Disclose Corporate Tax Cuts
Are companies going to live up to the promise of passing their tax cut savings on to working people and creating more jobs? We won't know unless companies disclose how they are using that money.
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The Toll of Neglect
The 2017 edition of the Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect report shows how too many workers remain at serious risk of workplace injury, illness and death.
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Workers Memorial Day 2018
On Workers Memorial Day, April 28, working people throughout the world remember those who were hurt or killed on the job and renew our struggle for safe workplaces.
NAFTA Needs to Work for Working People
Call your representative now and urge them to sign on to a letter in support of labor protections and the freedom to organize in the new North American Free Trade Agreement.
Restore the Overtime Pay Act
The Trump administration has abandoned an update to the overtime rule but new legislation would put overtime protections back in place for millions of working people.
We Need Real Recourse for Sexual Harassment
Tell university administrators that graduate school unionization will help advance gender equity and help victims of sexual harassment and assault achieve justice.
How to Form a Union
Every worker deserves the right to bargain over their salary and working conditions. Union members earn better wages and benefits than workers who aren’t in unions.
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April 21, 2018
Earth Day is an annual event that celebrates our planet’s natural beauty and calls for the protection of our natural treasures and mitigation of the damage human activity can inflict on our planet. Across the country, working people are a key part of those efforts. Here are some key examples of how working people are making our world a cleaner, safer place every day.
April 20, 2018
As the United States, Mexico and Canada renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, there is a lot of room for improvement. No improvement is more needed, however, than a new labor system in Mexico that secures for all workers the freedom to form and join free and independent unions, so that working people can act democratically and responsibly together to improve their wages and working conditions.
April 19, 2018
Workers depend on investments in the financial markets to finance our retirements and grow our other long-term savings. That means we need sound investment advice, provided by experts who are looking out for our best interests. While it seems obvious that the people whom we rely on to provide this advice should be required to act in our best interest and not line their own pockets, that is not always the case under current rules