NLRB Judge Rules Walmart Wrongly Fired Strikers

An administrative law judge at the National Labor Relations Board has ruled that Walmart retaliated against workers for participating in strikes. Walmart claimed that the workers’ actions were not protected under the National Labor Relations Act and that it was legitimate to fire the employees for violating the company’s attendance policy. Judge Geoffrey Carter ruled against Walmart.

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Check Out These Inspiring Highlights from the Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference

If you weren’t able to make it to Washington, D.C., for the 2016 AFL-CIO Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference, you can see highlights from the inspiring event in this new video from the Transport Workers (TWU). 

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Here’s Some History to Help Understand the Racial Wealth Gap

Next month is Black History Month. We will hear stories about black Americans and their successes in this country against the barriers (slavery, Jim Crow, poll tax just to name a few) thrown in their paths. Yet for every success story, there is still the nagging fact that the median net wealth of white households is 12.2 times greater than that of black households.

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Change the Rules, Be the Power: Highlights of the Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference

This past weekend, more than 1,000 participants attended the 2016 AFL-CIO Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference, the largest edition of the conference yet. This year’s theme was Change the Rules, Be the Power, and here are some social media highlights of the conference.

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