More than one million federal contractors lost a month of pay during the government shutdown but have yet to receive the back pay they deserve. Tell Congress to right that wrong.
UPDATE: The jefferson County Teacher’s Association endorsed Edelen, according to the campaign‘s Daniel Hurt. Laborers’ Local 576 in Louisville and Covington Professional Fi
In response to a stinging audit that criticized its spending practices, including no-bid contracts and University of Kentucky athletics tickets going to top managers for no identifiable business purpose, the governing board of Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Insurance on Friday recommended that its chief executive take a pay cut and lose his long-term job contract in favor of year-to-year probation.
The administration of Gov. Matt Bevin "willfully" withheld public records about sexual harassment and discrimination alleged by a former top social services official, Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd ruled Wednesday.
Students, parents and educators in Kentucky who have seen school budgets and programs gutted under the leadership of Matt Bevin could face no starker a reality than handing the future of public education over to he and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. Today’s gathering of education “reformers” was nothing more than a collection of big donors who want to gut public school budgets in favor of for-profit voucher and charter school funding.
For the better part of a generation, our global trading system has been rigged to enrich corporations at the expense of working people—and no deal has done more damage than NAFTA. We are hungry for a North American trade deal that lifts wages and improves livelihoods. The new NAFTA, also known as the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA), as proposed falls short, and that’s why America’s working families will keep fighting to fix it.
Check out the photo of the pickup truck I spotted on a recent trip to Honolulu for some research on my book about Kentuckians at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. (Yes, Melinda and I managed to squeeze in a little sightseeing and beach time.)
Right after I joined AFT 21 years ago, a veteran Kentucky union leader-- it might have been state Rep. J.R. Gray -- told me there are two kinds of trade unionists: "Union members and union people."
President, Calloway County Retired Teachers Association
April 15 has come and gone. We have either filed for an extension, pulled out our checkbook, or we're waiting for a refund.
We have developed separate federal, state, and local taxes on income, payroll, property, sales, capital gains, dividends, imports, estates, gifts, and various fees to fund our values.
Governments are required to create realistic budgets to reflect those values.
The good news: the North American Free Trade Agreement is finally being renegotiated because America’s working people demanded it. Our hard work made clear that the original, failed NAFTA cannot continue.
