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Transit Union Workers protest (Getty Images/Salon)

Trump’s NLRB quietly makes it riskier to wear union schwag at work

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U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) (L), speak during a news conference on the USMCA trade agreement, on Capitol Hill December 10, 2019 in Washington, DC. Pelosi said an agreement has been reached on a deal over the U.S.-Mexico-Canada, but final details for the trade pact were still being ironed out. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Why did Democrats give Trump a win on NAFTA 2.0?

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Striking Chicago public school teachers and their supporters march through the Loop on October 17, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Over the last week, at least 85,000 workers were out on 13 different strikes

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to a crowd gathered at the Local 18 Richfield Facility of the Operating Engineers Apprentice and Training, a union and apprentice training center specializing in the repair and operation of heavy equipment on March 29, 2018 in Richfield, Ohio. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

Trump is waging a war on labor unions, but you wouldn’t know it from CNN’s Dem Debate

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A Safeway grocery store is photographed Thursday, May 21, 2015, in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) (AP)

The next wave of labor unrest could be in grocery stores

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FILE - This July 17, 2015, file photo shows the tails of four American Airlines passenger planes parked at Miami International Airport, in Miami. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File) (AP)

American Airlines mechanics are threatening the “bloodiest, ugliest battle” in labor history

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Will the teacher strike wave hit Mississippi?

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(AP/Matt York)

Polar vortex shows how incarcerated workers are bearing the brunt of extreme weather

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Hundreds of federal workers and contractors rally against the partial federal government shutdown outside the headquarters of the AFL-CIO January 10, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

Federal employees are suing the Trump administration for forcing them to work for free

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FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2018, file photo, police stand guard after the confederate statue known as Silent Sam was toppled by protesters on campus at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C. Leaders of North Carolina’s flagship university are meeting to decide the fate of a Confederate monument torn down by protesters. The chancellor and trustees of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were finalizing a plan Monday, Dec. 3, for the century-old bronze statue known as “Silent Sam.” (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File) (AP)

In protest of a Confederate monument, UNC teaching assistants refuse to file grades

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(AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

Red state voters just overwhelmingly supported a minimum wage hike

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(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

The trucking industry is a “sweatshop on wheels.” Here’s how Kavanaugh could make it worse.

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In crosshairs of right-to-work, Kentucky bourbon makers go on strike

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(AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz)

White supremacists tried to travel on D.C. transit to Unite the Right 2. This union stopped them

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(AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

California says Starbucks has to stop stealing its workers’ wages

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As the planet warms, can OSHA protect workers from extreme heat?

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Labor has a far-right problem: Why some unions are cheering Trump’s immigration crackdown

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016, file photo, an engine and part of a wing from the 100th 787 Dreamliner to be built at Boeing of South Carolina's North Charleston, S.C., facility are seen outside the plant. Boeing reports financial results on Wednesday, April 27, 2016. (Brad Nettles/The Post and Courier via AP, File) MANDATORY CREDIT (AP)

Boeing workers in S.C. have unionized, but Trump’s labor board could abolish it

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Police union is lobbying to expand powers to tase people who don’t pose a threat

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Elon Musk (Reuters/Rashid Umar Abbasi)

Tesla workers say Elon Musk is a union buster. The NLRB just gave their case a boost

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(AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)

This Florida stealth offensive against unions could preview GOP onslaught in 2018

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(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

The Trump labor board just made it harder for fast-food workers to hold corporate bosses accountable

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(AP Photo/Steve Helber)

An affordable housing movement is rising from the wreckage of the foreclosure crisis

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(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

With all eyes on DACA, the Trump administration is quietly killing overtime protections

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