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Missouri's Working People Overwhelmingly Reject Right to Work

Last night was historic for working people in Missouri. Wealthy corporate interests tried to use their money to rig the system in favor of the 1%. But Missourians rejected the cynical power grab by an overwhelming 2-1 majority. Something big is happening with America’s working people—something that will bring change—and last night was just the latest evidence of this groundswell.

Working People Defeat Prop A in Missouri
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What You Need to Know About the Vote on Missouri's Prop. A Today

With one day left before Missourians go to the polls, working people are mobilizing across the Show-Me State in a massive final push to defeat Prop. A.
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Liz Shuler Says the Labor Movement Is Fighting Back in the Associated Press

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Trumka: True Patriotism in Missouri

AFL‑CIO President Richard Trumka (UMWA) spoke at the Missouri AFL‑CIO’s 29th Biennial Convention yesterday, rallying a packed audience of local union leaders and working Missourians in the fight against Prop. A. He recalled the charge that President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered to Americans in the midst of the Great Depression: “True patriotism urges us to build an even more substantial America where the good things of life may be shared by more of us.”
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Trumka Rallies Missouri AFL-CIO Convention to Defeat Proposition A

When we win here on August 7, it’s going to be the shot heard round the world. It’ll make waves in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and Ohio and Washington D.C. And it will provide a powerful rebuke of the Supreme Court’s disgraceful ruling in Janus.