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Data-Driven AP Lifts Up Students, Teachers

Lizzy Crispin headed the committee that led Leonardo Da Vinci High School to become the first and only Blue Ribbon high school in Buffalo, New York.

Wall Street Has the Lazy Workers

UAW President Shawn Fain  has identified a class of lazy workers—they’re on Wall Street.

Increase in Job-Related Deaths

Overall, fatalities on the job rose 5.7%. The rise in fatal occupational injuries from 2021 to 2022 is “alarming and unacceptable” to the AFL-CIO.

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Washington Metros biggest union stops plan for separate subway cars for white separatists coming to D.C. rally

WASHINGTONAmalgamated Transit Union Local 689, the biggest union among the Washington Metro systems bus and subway workers, has blown the whistle on and stopped a scheme to provide three separate

Court gives low-paid Alabama workers a win in fight for higher pay

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.A federal appeals court in Atlanta gave low-paid fast food workers and African-American workers in Birmingham, Ala.

Giant billboard tells Michigan residents of hospitals conflict with union nurses

CLEMENS, Mich.Theres a giant billboard looming over a main highway near the big McLaren-Macomb Hospital in the Detroit suburb of Mount Clemens, Mich.

Joblessness at 3.9%, as weekly wages fall; biz says it created 170k jobs

WASHINGTONThe U.S. unemployment rate was 3.9 percent in July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported, as businesses claimed to create a net of 170,000 new jobs last month.

Missouri Win, a Historic Victory for All Working People

Statement from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on the defeat of Missouris Prop. A:

Minn. professor plans to continue to teach classes despite ICE deportation threat

MINNEAPOLISIn a case Workday Minnesota has been following closely and yet another example of the GOP Trump administrations expulsion of migrants and refugees no matter how long theyve bee

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