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Robb Removal First Step Toward Giving Workers a Fair Shot

EDITOR'S NOTE: Kudos to our new president for immediately sacking Peter Robb. We weren't surprised. Up and down the campaign trail, Joe Biden made it plain that he'd be in our corner.

Trump concedes, okay not really

Thanks to Jeff Wiggins for sending us this spoof. Click here! 

Tunes that say 'ta ta' to Trump

By BERRY CRAIG

AFT Local 1360

Brothers and sisters, who's ready for some special holiday cheer?

Sign-Up To Make Calls Into Georgia

All of America is watching Georgia's run-off elections for the US Senate on January 5th. The Kentucky Labor Movement is doing our part to help elect labor endorsed candidates to the United States Senate, building a pro-working families majority.

Forward Kentucky: McConnell torpedoes emerging bipartisan deal for pandemic relief, leaving Congress where it’s been for months: stuck

KENTUCKY HEALTH NEWS

“An emerging $900 billion Covid-19 aid package from a bipartisan group of lawmakers all but collapsed Thursday after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Republican senators won’t support $160 billion in state and local funds as part of a potential trade-off,” The Associated Press reports.

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

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.

"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.

Vermont Medical Society Endorses National Single Payer Health Care

Thanks to Kay Tillow for sending us this. The Kentucky State AFL-CIO is one of many labor organizations nationwide that have endorsed a single-payer system. 
The Vermont Medical Society (VMS) overwhelmingly endorsed a resolution supporting a single-payer national health program, also known as improved Medicare for All, at its annual meeting on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020.