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Take Action: The White House Just Ripped Up Union Members’ Contracts

Take Action: The White House Just Ripped Up Union Members’ Contracts

Last night, the Trump administration took its most blatantly anti-worker, anti-union action yet: an executive order stripping the right to organize from hundreds of thousands of federal workers at more than 30 agencies.

 

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Statement on ICE’s Detention of SEIU Local 509 Union Member Rumeysa Ozturk and Yesterday’s Federal Collective Bargaining Executive Order

“The MA AFL-CIO strongly denounces federal immigration authorities’ detention of Rumeysa Ozturk, a graduate student at Tufts and a union member with SEIU Local 509.
 

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Broken Labor Law, Corporate Union-Busting Keep Union Density Flat Despite Renewed Organizing Push, Popularity of Unions

It’s plain as day that more working people want a union now than at any point in our lifetimes. Across our economy and in every part of the country, workers are standing together to demand fair treatment, better wages, and dignity and respect on the job.

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Read More > Broken Labor Law, Corporate Union-Busting Keep Union Density Flat Despite Renewed Organizing Push, Popularity of Unions

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Take Action: Governor Healey, Save Our Hospitals and Dept. of Mental Health Workers

Take Action: Governor Healey, Save Our Hospitals and Dept. of Mental Health Workers

The Healey-Driscoll Administration's budget proposes closing Pappas Rehabilitation Hospital for Children and Pocasset Mental Health Center which would result in the layoffs of 300 workers and the displacement of over 50 patients, in addition to laying off 170 Department of Mental Health caseworke

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