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March 1, 2016

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Transforming Women's Work

… Policy makers, women’s rights advocates, employers and the workers who fuel economic systems all have a critical role to play in ensuring that women’s rights, gender equality and access to decent work become fundamental goals of economic policy making. To grapple with how to shift policy priorities, create an enabling …

March 9, 2016

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AFL-CIO Submits Amicus Brief in Support of Immigrant Working Families

… Statement from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on the amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to lift the injunction in the U.S. v. Texas Case This injunction is blocking several million hard working immigrants from … workers face increasingly ugly and dangerous attacks from bigoted politicians, the labor movement rejects blatant attempts to divide us. We will continue to stand strong with our immigrant brothers and sisters as we fight together in the Congress, the courts and the streets to …

March 16, 2016

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The U.S.-China Economic Relationship: The TPP is Not the Answer

… (TPP) will advance the interests of global corporations over the U.S. national interest. As it stands, the TPP is likely to harm the American economy and its workers. Important trade policy reforms needed to achieve shared prosperity and sustainable growth and development in the TPP are unfortunately nonexistent (climate change … conceived is not that deal, which is why Congress must reject Fast Track and maintain its leverage to get the TPP right for America’s working families. …