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Before we even find out if Elon Musk can do comedy, we know this: Letting him host “Saturday Night Live” is a joke.

06, May, 2021

AFL-CIO Releases Annual Report on Workplace Fatalities

In 2019, 5,333 working people were killed on the job and an estimated 95,000 died from occupational diseases, according to the 30th edition of Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect report released today.

04, May, 2021

Human Rights and Labor Organizations Release Report on the PRO Act

The U.S. Senate should pass the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, five human rights and labor groups said today in releasing a question-and-answer document about the issue.

29, Apr, 2021

Biden: 'I'm a Union President'

Few presidents in America’s history have demonstrated a higher commitment to the labor movement than President Biden. “The truth is I’m a union president, and I make no bones about that,” he said on Saturday.

26, Apr, 2021

Labor, Environmental Advocates Call for High-Paying Electric Vehicle Jobs

Yesterday, ahead of the Leaders Summit on Climate, the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council and BlueGreen Alliance, along with the UAW and United Steelworkers (USW), released a report highlighting the need to preserve high-paying union jobs in the U.S.

23, Apr, 2021

EPI Finds Current Labor Laws Don’t Protect Workers Organizing

The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)—first passed in the 1930s—is supposed to provide workers protection from anti-union retaliation in the pursuit of organizing and collective bargaining.

23, Apr, 2021