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Gary Clemons, union member and veteran, has been elected State Senator for Kentucky's 37th District.

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Press Release: Gary Clemons Wins Special Election for Senate District 37

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Forward Kentucky: Reports from the 'Families First' rallies in Paducah and Jackson

30 Jul, 2025 Read More >

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Today's AFL-CIO Daily Brief: AFL-CIO Tour Bus Races Through Derby City with BOSK Workers Ahead of Their Landmark Election

28 Jul, 2025 Read More >

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From RSN: Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia Legalizes Workplace Discrimination on His Way out the Door

Thanks to Kirk Gillenwaters for sending us this.

By Mark Joseph Stern, Slate

09, Dec, 2020

ICYMI: Reuters: Representative Finkenauer in contention for Biden's Labor secretary

By TIM REID and TREVOR HUNNICUTT

(Reuters) - Abby Finkenauer, one of the youngest women in Congress, is among the contenders to become Democratic President-elect Joe Biden’s Labor Secretary, according to three people familiar with the selection process.

09, Dec, 2020

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"If you’ve never walked a picket line, you don’t understand shared sacrifice'

By BERRY CRAIG

AFT Local 1360

Donald Trump is demonstrably one of the most anti-union presidents in American history.

08, Dec, 2020

Vermont Medical Society Endorses National Single Payer Health Care

Thanks to Kay Tillow for sending us this.

07, Dec, 2020

AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Selected to Serve on Statewide Child Abuse Prevention Board of Directors

(Lexington, KY) – Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky (PCAK) has announced Jeff Wiggins, the Secretary-Treasurer for the KY State AFL-CIO, and a resident of Paducah, has been appointed to their Board of Directors.

05, Dec, 2020

Lexington Herald-Leader: KY House Democrats ‘outraged’ after new Republican members go maskless in Capitol

KDP Statement On New Legislative Members Refusing to Wear Masks at Orientation, GOP Leadership’s Unacceptable Response

The following is a statement from Colmon Elridge, Chair of the Kentucky Democratic Party:

04, Dec, 2020