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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

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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

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We told you so: In These Times: Trump Just Escalated His War on Coal Miners. Their Unions Are Fighting Back.

We told you so: In These Times: Trump Just Escalated His War on Coal Miners. Their Unions Are Fighting Back.

The Trump administration’s feckless business-first, workers-last approach is leaving the nation’s coal miners to die—and now their unions are taking him to court.

By KIM KELLY

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'Hands off our healthcare. Hands off our benefits. Hands off our people. Hands off our unions.'

'Hands off our healthcare. Hands off our benefits. Hands off our people. Hands off our unions.'

By BERRY CRAIG

AFT-KEA/NEA retiree

Heavy rains and flash flooding led Four Rivers Indivisible to postpone Paducah's "Hands Off!' protest against the Trump administration until today.

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'These are human beings with families and kids who have built lives here, and they deserve dignity, compassion, and due process.'

'These are human beings with families and kids who have built lives here, and they deserve dignity, compassion, and due process.'

 

By BERRY CRAIG

AFT and KEA/NEA retiree

Going on 170 years ago, "Know-Nothing" mobs rampaged through German and Irish Catholic immigrant neighborhoods in Louisville on election day, killing, burning and looting virtually at will.

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