Trump Blue Collar Support highest since FDR in 1930s

By Dmitri Voltova – October 17, 2015 It may come as a surprise to many that Donald J Trump’s support from Blue Collar Americans (those involved in trades, manufacturing, industry, and labor) is the highest since any candidate since FDR in 1936 since Gallup began polling. Trump has consistently shown his appeal to the blue…

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Postal unions, advocacy groups join forces to ‘save’ USPS

By Lisa Rein – February 12, 2015 The American Postal Workers Union will join other labor and advocacy groups Thursday to announce a new coalition designed to “save” the U.S. Postal Service from service cuts and efforts to privatize the mail system. The coalition of 63 religious coalitions, retiree organizations, educational and postal unions, lawmakers…

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Workers Unite to Save Postal Service

The existence of the US Postal Service is anathema to capitalist and free market ideologists in the US. Here stands a colossal, unionized organization of workers—once nearly a million strong—working in what essentially is a nationalized industry, bringing universal service at the lowest price possible, without trying to make a profit or paying shareholder dividends….

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The Brief Origins of May Day | Industrial Workers of the World

By Eric Chase – 1993. Most people living in the United States know little about the International Workers’ Day of May Day. For many others there is an assumption that it is a holiday celebrated in state communist countries like Cuba or the former Soviet Union. Most Americans don’t realize that May Day has its…

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