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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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AFL-CIO President Responds to Trump’s Joint Address to Congress: 'The Solution…Won’t Come from Political Parties; It’ll Come from Us'

AFL-CIO President Responds to Trump’s Joint Address to Congress: 'The Solution…Won’t Come from Political Parties; It’ll Come from Us'

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued a video response to President Trump’s joint address to Congress Tuesday night. In the video, Shuler speaks about the country’s working class, “united,” she says, “in how fed up they are with the system we live in.”

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From the Alliance for Retired Americans: Trump’s Lies About Social Security Continue—Americans Deserve the Truth and the Social Security They Earned

From the Alliance for Retired Americans: Trump’s Lies About Social Security Continue—Americans Deserve the Truth and the Social Security They Earned

Statement by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, on President Trump’s Lies About Social Security during his Address to a Joint Session of Congress

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David “Bud” Morris celebrates his son Landen’s first Christmas in 2005. Five days later, Bud died after a mine owner, the only mine emergency technician on duty, failed to render aid after Bud was injured underground. (Morris family photo published in The Lantern)
From the Kentucky Lantern: A father died mining coal. His son warns KY bill would endanger other miners.

From the Kentucky Lantern: A father died mining coal. His son warns KY bill would endanger other miners.

House has voted to weaken an emergency protection at small operations. What will Senate do?

By LIAM NIEMEYER

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