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UFCW Local 227 Trailer Hits the Road to Help Members in Need

The UFCW is into food, not fighting.
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Kentucky: Labor 'Batted' .647 in the Primary

If candidate endorsements were like baseball batting averages, the Kentucky State AFL-CIO would be leading the big leagues and heading for the Hall of Fame.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Championed Civil Rights and Unions

Kentuckians, including many union members, will march Wednesday in Frankfort in remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was murdered April 4, 1968, in Memphis.
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'All I Could Think About Was My Friend Was Gone'

Thomas, one of the country’s oldest union officers, was a civil rights activist before she was a labor activist.
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A Rising Tide of Buyer's Remorse Even in the Red States?

Anyway, go ahead and call it whistling past the graveyard. But the 51% number suggests that buyer’s remorse is creeping up in the border state I’ve called home for all my 68 years.
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Chuck Jones Is Still Taking Trump to Task

When Ronald Reagan ran for president in 1980, the GOP put out a TV commercial in which a union guy said Reagan was for working stiffs like him.

Unions warned that the far-right-wing Reagan was notoriously anti-union. "A union member voting for Ronald Reagan would be like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders," said a sign in a Paducah union hall.