By Driss El-Hassan Earlier this year, the state of Florida, under Governor Ron DeSantis, enacted a law that rolls back certain child labor protections for children aged 16-17. The bill, HB 49, went into effect on July 1. The changes made in HB 49 are as follows: HB 49 was initially written by the Foundation […]
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The Youth and Student Department of the Party of Communists USA endorses the following statement from the World Federation of Trade Unions. On October 3, 1945, in the ashes of the Second World War, in the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, trade unions from across the globe united to establish the World Federation of Trade
WASHINGTON, DC—On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate considered three “joint resolutions of disapproval,” proposed by long-time UE ally Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), which would have blocked U.S. sales of offensive weaponry to the Israeli military. The resolutions, in Sanders’ words, “are aimed at offensive weapons that have been used to devastating effect against civilians in Gaza
Since Donald Trump’s election victory on November 5th, AFL-CIO affiliated unions have released statements commenting on where the Democratic Party went wrong. Even the AFL-CIO President Liz Schuler commented that, “it is clear that the economic struggle working-class people are facing is causing real pain and neither party has sufficiently addressed it”. While at face
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Statement of the UE officers For over half of a century, working people in the U.S. have seen stagnating wages, worsening working conditions, the loss of good jobs, and constant increases in the cost of living. This is the result of corporations’ never-ending thirst to squeeze as many profits out of workers as possible. Throughout
The New York Times Tech Guild, which builds and maintains critical programs and creates popular online games such as Wordle, voted to strike just before Election Day. The Tech Guild is a bargaining unit of The News Guild of NY and includes software engineers, product managers, project managers, data analysts, and designers. It is the
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LUEL Supports the Jill Stein Presidential Campaign Labor United Educational League believes that the Green Party platform is the most progressive on the ballot for the 2024 presidential election. No other candidate is calling for the repeal of Taft-Hartley, a Federal Jobs Guarantee, and the end of US military intervention around the world. Neither Trump
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Originally published by Labor Today – https://labortoday.luel.us/en/ On October 1st LUEL members up and down the East Coast went out on the picket lines to support the striking International Longshoremen Association (ILA) workers. LUEL Mid-Atlantic and Southern Chapters heeded the call of solidarity at outside Ports in Staten Island, Philadelphia, and Miami. The workers expressed
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The ninth session for 2024 of the Harry Bridges School of Labor will be on the History of the Trade Union Educational League (TUEL). TUEL was the Labor United Educational League’s predecessor organization, which formed during the 1920s. The Harry Bridges School of Labor aims to educate the workers of America on the strength of
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PITTSBURGH—Meeting on September 12 and 13, UE’s General Executive Board debated and approved a statement calling on UE locals and members, and the rest of the labor movement, to “get serious about building a true political alternative, a labor party that can unite and speak for the working class.” The statement notes that corporate control
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