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From Trader Joe's United: Captive audience meetings are a way that corporations like Trader Joe's force workers to sit through anti-union propaganda. The NLRB just banned them.

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Pitch in to help the Battle of Blair Mountain centennial observance

By BERRY CRAIG

AFT Local 1360

The centennial of the Battle of Blair Mountain, "the largest armed uprising on American soil since the Civil War," won't come around until 2021.

21, Nov, 2018

Recycle your 'Remember in November' sign!

By BERRY CRAIG

AFT Local 1360

I just recycled that plastic red-and-black "REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER" yard sign I got from KEA.

After all, the gubernatorial election is just 350 days away.

20, Nov, 2018

Adkins-Horne hit the campaign trail in Paducah

By BERRY CRAIG

AFT Local 1360

When the state legislature meets in January, Republicans will sit in all the House seats west of Henderson and occupy every Senate seat west of Interstate 65.

19, Nov, 2018

High court majority ignored RTW law's constitutional violations

In a split decision, the Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled Kentucky’s Right to Work Act constitutional.

16, Nov, 2018

'I am more empowered and energized than ever'

EDITOR'S NOTE: In the last few days, we have seen more than a few letters from defeated candidates thanking their supporters. We published one from Amy McGrath, your state AFL-CIO-endorsed candidate for Congress in the Sixth District.

15, Nov, 2018

From Forward Kentucky: Republicans win on the Three Gs – plus an L for “Lying”

By BERRY CRAIG

Democrat Charlotte Goddard was campaigning door-to-door in a working-class Mayfield neighborhood when she spotted a Ten Commandments sign in the front yard of a modest house.

14, Nov, 2018