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Erik Loomis

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to an audience at United Performance Metals on May 6, 2022 in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Devastating pre-holiday rail strike looms after unions reject deal — will Biden force workers back?

Erik Loomis
The late AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

In Richard Trumka, the U.S. labor movement loses one of its best leaders

Erik Loomis
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)

Donald Rumsfeld’s death leaves behind a legacy of arrogance and violence

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(AP/Carolyn Kaster/Reuters/Stephen Lam/Photo montage by Salon)

We need a new Democratic party: On TPP, workers’ rights and income inequality, they are as bad as GOP

Erik Loomis

Eight ways we’re headed back to the robber baron era

Erik Loomis