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So, You Want to Run for Office? Informational Meeting

We had an excellent turnout at the informational meeting on running for office!  Panel participants were: Dan Bukiewicz, Mayor of Oak Creek; Doug Perry, School Board – South Milwaukee; Dennis McBride, Common Council – Wauwatosa and LaTonya Johnson, State Senator 6th District.  Each

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Call Your Senators: Tax Reform that Benefits the Middle Class

Call to Action: Please call your Senators to be heard.

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Democrats Have An Ambitious Plan To Help Rebuild Labor Unions

As a pillar of the Democratic Party, unions have wanted for years to see mainstream Democrats push for major reforms to the law that would rejuvenate the ranks of organized labor.

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African-American Summit 2017: Pathways to a Job

 

 

The "Pathways to a Job: 2017 African-American Summit" was hosted by the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) and the Milwaukee Area Labor Council Civil Rights Committee.

Presenters included:

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AFL-CIO, Several Unions Send Volunteers to Puerto Rico

Some 275 volunteers – pilots, mechanics, flight attendants and other workers – took off from Newark International Airport on October 4 on a union-sponsored relief mission to hurricane-smashed Puerto Rico, the AFL-CIO announced.

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Students Work Together to Create Change at Nike

In a powerful illustration of the ability of grassroots activists to challenge corporate power, United Students Against Sweatshops, the nation’s leading student organization focused on issues of worker rights and economic justice, has just scored a crucial victory over the world’s biggest s

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