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Jenkins, who was elected to the Minneapolis City Council, is one of several transgender political candidates to win on Tuesday.
Two American sailors who survived a five-month ordeal shot down skeptics Wednesday, reiterating that they had survived squalls, sharks, and more.
Halladay's wife said in a video posted a month ago that she didn't want him to buy the ICON A5 he ended up piloting when he died.
Labor-Backed Candidates Win Big in Tuesday’s Elections
It was a big night for labor’s agenda as pro-worker candidates won election from coast to coast Tuesday.
NJ AFL-CIO
In Virginia, Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam handily defeated Ed Gillespie as AFL-CIO-endorsed candidates won throughout the commonwealth. Virginia AFL-CIO President Doris Crouse-Mays hailed the victories:
“Today, Virginia’s voters turned out in record numbers to stand with working people and reject the hateful, divisive rhetoric that has taken over the airwaves throughout the campaign. Virginia voters have spoken—we must work toward a commonwealth that puts working families first and prioritizes real issues that impact our lives each and every day. All students must have quality public education and job-training opportunities. All workers must be guaranteed fair wages, safe working conditions and the freedom to join in union. And all Virginians must have access to quality, affordable health care no matter where they live.
“We are proud to stand with you all and elect Ralph Northam, Justin Fairfax, Mark Herring and a host of delegates in districts...
UNITE HERE Women Reflect on International Assembly
UNITE HERE
In October 2017, members of UNITE HERE Local 1 served as delegates to the 3rd International Trade Union Confederation World Women’s Conference/Women’s Organizing Assembly in San Jose, Costa Rica.
UNITE HERE Local 1 was invited to share about the "Hands Off Pants On" campaign and recent legislative victory in Chicago. Local 1’s delegation included Tina Graham, Ofelia Martinez and Kasey Nalls, rank-and-file members who helped survey nearly 500 women working in Chicagoland hotels and casinos about sexual harassment, the results of which gave rise to the "Hands Off Pants On" campaign. The final day of the conference included a screening of the video featuring President Jorge Ramirez of the Chicago Federation of Labor and other male union leaders speaking out about sexual harassment. Also in attendance was award-winning playwright Eve Ensler, who interviewed the UNITE HERE Local 1 team for a new project about workplace sexual violence.
Get the inside scoop from the UNITE HERE Local 1 team members! Read their reflections about the ITUC Women’s Organizing...
A Gift to Outsourcers
The Republican tax bill would give a giant tax cut to big corporations that outsource jobs.
Under the bill, a business that creates jobs on Main Street USA would pay U.S. taxes on its profits at a rate of 20%, while a big corporation that outsources those same jobs to Ireland or Switzerland would pay NO U.S. TAXES on the profits it earns from outsourcing.
Why is this so?
Currently, the United States taxes all profits of U.S. corporations, whether earned in the United States or in a foreign country, at the same rate of 35%. However, a corporation that earns profits in a foreign country does not have to pay U.S. taxes on those earnings until it repatriates them to the United States.
The GOP tax bill changes this system so a U.S. corporation that earns ordinary profits in a foreign country never pays any U.S. income taxes on those profits. By "ordinary," I mean earnings from active operations in foreign countries, not domestic profits earned in the United States that the company disguises as foreign profits through the use of accounting gimmicks.
Reducing the U.S. tax rate on offshore profits...
The Faces and Stories of TPS Workers
AFL-CIO
Many of the working people in the country through the Temporary Protected Status program have been in the United States legally for years. Now they are at risk of having their status and work permits cruelly stripped away.
These are people we work with every day. Read their stories and watch them speak at the recent AFL-CIO Convention.
Marvin Monge: "I was born in El Salvador. I've been working in the United States for 20 years, and I am an organizer for the International Union of Bricklayers under TPS. I am a proud member of the Bricklayers and Allied Crafts, but I may lose my work authorization. I'm not going forward. I'm going backward. I could become undocumented again, and I don't know how to go back to the shadows. There are people out there who appreciate what our unions are doing."
Ericka Lopez: "I was born in El Salvador. I've been working in the United States for 17 years. I worked in laundries, but now I am a union organizer under TPS, and I'm a proud member of UNITE HERE. When I listen to this government, I feel worried and scared for me and my family...
Vermont's Ed Flanagan, credited as the first openly gay lawmaker in the country elected to statewide office, has died at 66.
About half of the victims killed in the worst mass shooting inside a house of worship in American history were children, a Texas sheriff says.
Kentucky's Republican House Speaker Jeff Hoover resigned his leadership position after acknowledging he settled sexual harassment claims from one of his staffers last month.
