House Passes Rail Labor Agreement And Separate Paid Sick Leave Bill

Update to President Biden Calls On Congress To Impose Agreement Between Railroad Workers And Operators. The Hill reports, House votes to avert rail strike, provide workers paid sick leave: The House passed a bill on Wednesday to avert a railway strike, taking the first major step in avoiding a walkout of workers that would have … Read more

Pro-Labor President Biden Steps In And Averts A National Rail Strike

The Associated Press reports, Biden: Tentative railway labor deal reached, averting strike: President Joe Biden said Thursday that a tentative railway labor agreement has been reached, averting a strike that could have been devastating to the economy before the pivotal midterm elections. Railroads and union representatives had been in negotiations for 20 hours at the … Read more

SCOTUS Watch: Chief Justice Roberts Creates New Property Law To Undermine Government Regulation of Business (Updated)

In the second long anticipated U.S. Supreme Court decision today, the six conservative Justices on the Court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid held that California’s access regulation, which gives union organizers the right to enter the property of agricultural employers for a certain amount of time, constitutes a per … Read more

The AFL-CIO is bringing pressure to bear on Arizona’s senators to support the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act

The AFL-CIO is bringing pressure to bear on Arizona’s senators to support the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. Huffington Post reports, Organized Labor Puts Heat On Democratic Holdouts To Support PRO Act: The AFL-CIO labor federation says it’s spending seven figures on television and radio ads aimed at bolstering Senate support for the … Read more

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Dems Fight Back as Republicans Attack Your Rights (video)

Republicans are attacking your rights at multiple levels — voting rights, reproductive rights, the right to protest, the right to sue a business, the right to citizens initiative, and the right to unionize. On Tuesday, the first bill up for debate was SB1268, the anti-union ALEC bill. In committee, we were led to believe that … Read more