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You’d need to work 5 lifetimes just to make your boss’s annual salary, report says

The average S&P 500 CEO earned 272 times more than what an ordinary worker took home last year, researchers found.

Fortune

Americans are hungry to be part of unions. So why is US labor so timid?

Support for organized labor is soaring. Yet the biggest US union coalition endorsed Biden without asking anything in return

The Guardian - US

Black and Latino worker deaths soar

Federal government spends just $3.99 per worker on workplace safety compliance and “underreporting is widespread"

Salon

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Why union membership is languishing amid labor revival

High profile labor organizing hasn't boosted overall union numbers.

Axios

How Democrats can build a 2024 blowout

The lesson of 2022: If Democrats focus on core progressive issues that affect people's lives, anything is possible

Salon

Republicans want working-class voters — without actually supporting workers

GOP courts blue collar voters but most favor anti-union ‘right to work’ laws and reject laws that would protect right to organize

The Guardian - US

Head of LA Labor Federation resigns amid furor over leaked City Council recording, sources say

LOS ANGELES — Facing outrage over a controversial leaked audio recording with top L.A. city officials, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera offered his resignation at a Monday night meeting with the federation’s executive board, which accepted, according to two sources close to the situation.

Los Angeles Times

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Biden Forgets That Workers Are Consumers Too

Who does he think ultimately pays those taxes?

Reason

Biden, Harris prepare for traditional Labor Day events

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will head to events championing unionized labor at an inflection point for the movement, with workers in new industries and geographies seeking to organize.

Tribune News Service

Biden, Harris prepare for traditional Labor Day events - Roll Call

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris head to events championing unionized labor.

Roll Call

Biden headed to Milwaukee, Pittsburgh on Labor Day

President Joe Biden plans to travel to the battleground states of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania on Labor Day, just over two months before the November election

The Independent UK

Union Station: Federal Labor Relations Authority decertifies National ICE Council

On Aug. 11, Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) Regional Director Jessica S. Bartlett granted the American Federation of Government Employees’ (AFGE) petition to disclaim representational interest in AFGE Council 118—the National ICE Council—and decertified the union. National ICE Council President Chris Crane called the decision whistleblower retaliation, and U.S. Sen.…

Ballotpedia

US labor leaders say underfunding at federal agency has ‘reached crisis stage’

Union officials fear that the overstretched NLRB won’t be able to handle the surge in union activity, giving corporations the upper hand

The Guardian - US

Labor unions are hot, but their moment may not last

WASHINGTON — American labor leaders see this as a moment for radical change: Workers in Starbucks coffee shops and Amazon warehouses are rising up and demanding representation. Polls show millions more support unions or wish they had the chance to join them. President Biden, with majorities in both chambers of…

Los Angeles Times

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Ballotpedia

Union Station: National ICE Council will separate from American Federation of Government Employees

The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) announced on July 12 that it had filed paperwork with the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) to relinquish its representational interest in AFGE Council 118, the National ICE Council, which represents U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees.

The Independent UK

Foundations embrace organized labor with $20 million plan

Following a string of union victories at Amazon and Starbucks, a group of prominent progressive grantmakers is seeking to put a total of $20 million into a coalition with organized labor that will steer funds to organizing and advocacy campaigns in the South

WEKU

Organizing and adding members are top goals for the newly elected AFL-CIO president

Elizabeth Shuler, the first woman ever elected president of the labor federation, is pledging a massive organizing drive over the next decade, with a goal of adding 1 million new union members.

The Guardian - US

AFL-CIO unveils plan to grow but some union leaders underwhelmed

Liz Shuler, the federation’s president, announces effort to increase membership by 1m but some say they ‘have to aim much higher’

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Biden acknowledges 'our work isn't done' on the economy as he talks to labor leaders in Philadelphia

President Joe Biden acknowledged the economic pains Americans are feeling while pointing to progress he said his administration has made to build an economy around working people in an address to labor leaders in Philadelphia on Tuesday.

The Guardian - UK

Britain’s hopes of post-Brexit US trade deal ‘depend on workers’ rights’

Unions from both sides of the Atlantic accuse Boris Johnson’s government of failing to grasp importance of labour rights

Axios

Big Labor is failing to meet the moment, advocates say

After overseeing decades of decline, big unions aren't quite used to this kind of excitement around organizing.

The Guardian - US

Largest US union federation presses Fifa on labor rights around 2026 World Cup

AFL-CIO leads a coalition demanding Fifa address concerns on human and labor rights at tournament in US, Canada and Mexico

Roll Call

Infrastructure law demands new focus on transit worker assaults - Roll Call

Transit operators and unions say they’ve seen a spike in violence against transit workers since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Guardian - US

US unions condemn ‘unacceptable’ Oregon pension fund link with NSO

AFL-CIO in Oregon calls for urgent divestment from fund that owns Israeli spyware company alleged to have targeted union members

Tribune News Service

Longshoremen seek workers’ comp law change for COVID-19 coverage

Between Dec. 29 and Jan. 14, Mark Bass, president of the International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1410 in Mobile, Alabama, watched as COVID-19 cases swept through the maritime workforce, ultimately infecting about 20 percent of it.

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