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First Day Fairness: An agenda to build worker power and ensure job quality
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A profile of union workers in state and local government: Key facts about the sector for followers of Janus v. AFSCME Council 31
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Testimony for Hearing on Regulatory Reform
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Ending individual mandatory arbitration alone fails most workers: For real worker power, end the ban on class and collective action lawsuits
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A Missouri ‘right-to-work’ law is more likely to harm black workers, who are more likely to be covered by a union contract than other workers
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Black workers in right-to-work (RTW) states tend to have lower wages than in Missouri and other non-RTW states
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The Workplace Democracy Act restores workers’ bargaining power
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State attorneys general can play key roles in protecting workers’ rights
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EPI submits comments opposing the USDA’s proposed increase in hog slaughtering line speed
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Let’s fight for working people on Workers’ Memorial Day
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Preemption laws prevent cities from acting on everything from labor and employment to gun safety
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Congress should pass bill with protections for tipped workers
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Janus and fair share fees: The organizations financing the attack on unions’ ability to represent workers
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EPI applauds USDA decision rejecting poultry industry petition to speed up processing lines
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Year one of the Trump administration: Normalizing itself by working for the top 1 percent
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Workers’ health, safety, and pay are among the casualties of Trump’s war on regulations: A deregulation year in review
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State and local policymakers should beware preemption clauses
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Fighting for public sector union rights 50 years after MLK’s assassination
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EPI lays out the 10 worst attacks on working people in the first year of the Trump presidency
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Ten actions that hurt workers during Trump’s first year: How Trump and Congress further rigged the economy in favor of the wealthy
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Trump’s Overtime Pay Cut Calculator
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By overturning Specialty Healthcare, the NLRB has made it harder for workers to organize
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Correction—Employers would pocket $5.8 billion in workers’ tips under Trump administration rule
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At least $2 billion in stolen wages was recovered for workers in 2015 and 2016: This number represents only a fraction of total wages stolen from workers
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Two billion dollars in stolen wages were recovered for workers in 2015 and 2016—and that’s just a drop in the bucket
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Trump’s National Labor Relations Board moves to make joining a union more difficult
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Employers would pocket $5.8 billion of workers’ tips under Trump administration’s proposed ‘tip stealing’ rule
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Federal overtime pay bill would boost paychecks by $1.2 billion annually
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Veterans fought for the right to collectively bargain—Congress should defend it
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Proposal to change the H-2A program via appropriations would allow agribusiness to fill hundreds of thousands of permanent, year-round jobs with temporary guestworkers