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Workers are increasingly anxious about how companies use artificial intelligence -- just look at the actors and writers striking in Hollywood. But the labor movement isn’t actually against the emerging technology. On POLITICO Tech, the AFL-CIO’s Amanda Ballantyne tells Steven Overly that policies just need to be in place to ensure AI isn’t against workers.

Weclome back Kyber Squadron! This week, we're talking unions, Right-to-Work laws, and what happens when people get tired of the "business as usual" mentality that allows anti-trans/anti-abortion/pro-gun laws to pass in state legislatures across the country. Come for the Star Wars friendships, stay for the newest mini-segment!

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Trump Indicted

F1 v IndyCar

Australian GP Highlights

Star Wars Connection

Michigan Repeals Right to Work Law

Right-to-Work History (Wikipedia)

AFL-CIO Stats

Union v Nonunion Conditions

36 Reasons to Thank Your Union

State of (Our) Unions

LAUSD Strike

Strike Results

No Shortcuts

Sen. Hunt's Fillibuster

Tennessee's Expelled and Reinstated Legislators

Right-to-Work States

 

The largest labor union in the nation, the AFL-CIO, is masquerading as Katie from Working America to mislead Wisconsin voters.

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Episode 5 featured Damon Silvers, special counsel at the AFL-CIO. From the echoes of corporate power in the 1920s to the reverberations of the 2008 crisis, from workers’ rights to the instability of the financial system, this was an exciting journey through the past and future of the labor market. One takeaway: America’s economic system was built to fail its people in a pandemic.

Bitcoin and Crypto Currencies :: Brad Sherman crypto endorsement :: Spending Exercises in the Military :: AFL-CIO calls for executions and riots :: Bayer and Zyklon B :: Crazy James :: Dunedin steals people’s homes over grass :: Mark, Jay & Silver Dave

A tentative one-year contract calls for a 10.5 percent raise for 6,000 Seattle Public Schools employees, according to an email sent Saturday to members of the Seattle Education Association.The deal, reached late Friday, also includes five additional days of paid parental leave for teachers and substitutes, classified staff and office personnel. School will start as scheduled on Wednesday, Sept. 5. Union members and the School Board will vote on the contract this month.Under the 2015-2018 contract, Seattle teachers earn between $50,604 and $100,763. A 10.5 percent hike would change the salary range to $55,984 to $111,343.Seattle Times

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said; "the North American Free Trade Agreement should include Canada. Trumka, whose organization is an umbrella group for most unions, said the economies of the United States, Canada and Mexico are "integrated" and "it's pretty hard to see how that would work without having Canada in the deal."

We give Brazil $2 Bn so they can drill and we can buy oil from them. Obama goes to the U.N. and not Congress to start a war. Do you know why? It has to be stopped!

Featuring Rep. Al Carlson, ND House Majority Leader discussing the first part of the session, and what lies ahead in the second half of the session...

Featuring Weekend Roundup with Bruce Kelly, and Dave Kemnitz, President of ND AFL-CIO...