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Video Contest: Four $5000 cash prizes for videos about the future you want!
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Video Contest: Four $5000 cash prizes for videos about the future you want!

Care about jobs and the future of your community? Angry about sweatshops and the exploitation of children? Resolute that looking for the union label is as important today as it was 40 years ago? Think our country does best when we invest in ourselves?

Video Contest: Four $5000 cash prizes for videos about the future you want!

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AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka: We are Not Staying Still!
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AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka: We are Not Staying Still!

The labor movement isn’t content to merely survive in an era when anti-union lawmakers control both chambers of Congress – we’re moving forward, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told delegates at the 2018 UAW Community Action Program (CAP) Conference in Washington, D.C.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka: We are Not Staying Still!

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NAACP President Derrick Johnson tells delegates "Stay laser-focused so the right does not divide progressive allies"
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NAACP President Derrick Johnson tells delegates "Stay laser-focused so the right does not divide progressive allies"

First, NAACP President Derrick Johnson explained that there definitely is a connection between civil rights and labor. As a matter of fact, they are natural allies. And two, just as with other progressive coalitions and allies, we must stay sharply focused on the next five years to turn the tide on the attacks from the right.

NAACP President Derrick Johnson tells delegates "Stay laser-focused so the right does not divide progressive allies"

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Rep. Jayapal: We have to value all immigrants
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Rep. Jayapal: We have to value all immigrants

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, who represents most of Seattle and adjoining areas, came to America from India all on her own at 16 years old to attend college at Georgetown University because her parents wanted her to have a good education and opportunities. The first Indian-American in the U.S. House of Representatives, says the term “chain migration” is a derogatory term used to scapegoat immigrants.

Rep. Jayapal: We have to value all immigrants

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Sen. Debbie Stabenow: “Corporate investors get millions. American workers get Twinkies.”
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Sen. Debbie Stabenow: “Corporate investors get millions. American workers get Twinkies.”

Republicans talk a good game. In fact, Sen. Debbie Stabenow said that she thought President Trump might have borrowed her speeches on the campaign trail in 2016 as he wooed workers who wanted something different out of Washington.

Sen. Debbie Stabenow: “Corporate investors get millions. American workers get Twinkies.”