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Kelly said that she sent an email last year to the co-presidents of her former employer Fox News complaining about O'Reilly's behavior toward women.

Global Action for Local Power

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In St. Louis, representatives from more than 40 countries gathered with U.S. unions and their allies to discuss strategies to build global power for workers, from local workplaces to worldwide supply chains. They discussed how unions in local struggles made their campaigns stronger by reaching out across borders to partners and used global tools to leverage power.

Tactics varied, from international shareholder actions led by the AFT at a global education company to working with global unions like IndustriAll to UNI, to make global framework agreements that were more effective in building membership and bargaining power for U.S. workers at European companies who wanted to join Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union/UFCW (RWDSU/UFCW) and several manufacturing unions like Machinists (IAM), UAW, United Steelworkers (USW), Electrical Workers (IBEW) and Communications Workers of America (CWA).

Workers from Bangladesh and Honduras provided examples of long struggles and victories that needed both local boots on the ground and cooperative strategies with global partners to...

USAS: Strengthening Student Power at the Bargaining Table

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United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) is the country’s largest student labor solidarity organization, with more than 150 university locals campaigning for union rights alongside campus workers, community members and garment workers producing college apparel overseas.

Students chanted, “Whose university? Our university!” as they stormed their president’s office on a sunny spring day.

For more than a year and half, students of USAS Local 150 had organized alongside adjunct faculty fighting for a union at Fordham University in the Bronx, N.Y. What should have been a peaceful march to the president’s office ended with a violent assault on student activists by campus security. All the while, the president, vice president and dean waited behind closed doors as the chanting and tension only escalated outside. Soon after, the news of the incident spread nationally, as USAS members and alumni called more than a hundred times, demanding justice for the student activists and the freedom for adjuncts to unionize. The following week, the university president...

Myeshia Johnson, the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, told Good Morning America that the phone call she received from Trump made her "cry even more."

You catch HPV from having sex. So why aren't people talking about that?

The probe of Tony Podesta, brother of Hillary Clinton's campaign chair, grew out of Mueller's look into the finances of ex-Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort.

The probe of Tony Podesta, brother of Hillary Clinton's campaign chair, grew out of Mueller's look into the finances of ex-Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort.

Hurricane Harvey was supposed to be the storm that didn't discriminate. The recovery is proving otherwise.

Justin Timberlake is looking forward to performing at Super Bowl LII and says one of his big goals is to get Al Michaels dancing.

Thirty-one women spoke to The Los Angeles Times on the record, describing meetings in which James Toback touched them inappropriately or masturbated.