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![The National Air Traffic Controllers Association rallied for an end to the government shutdown in front of the Capitol on Thursday, January 10, 2019, in Washington, DC.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/01/GettyImages-1080003194-400x300.jpg)
Federal Workers Hold Massive DC Rally Against Trump
In the words of one employee, “Stop holding 800,000 federal employees and their families hostage!”
![A US flag and a pride rainbow flag overlap in the crowd during a marriage equality rally in West Hollywood, California, celebrating the Supreme Court's ruling on June 26, 2015.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/01/GettyImages-563914103-400x300.jpg)
Will the Supreme Court Keep LGBTQ Workers From Being Fired?
Employees can already be fired for being LGBTQ in 26 states.
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Federal Employees’ Union Sues Trump Administration Over Work Without Pay
The American Federation of Government Employees says it is illegal for federal workers to work without pay.
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Questioning the Logic of Capital: A Conversation With Richard D. Wolff
Market-based economies have had their critics since the times of Plato and Aristotle.
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Trump Administration Suggests Unpaid Federal Workers Do Odd Jobs to Cover Rent
The advice came as Republican lawmakers announced there has been no progress on reopening the government.
![Katrina Greenwood joins with other protesters against Republican senators who have not spoken up against repealing the Affordable Care Act on July 24, 2017, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/12/GettyImages-821797146-400x300.jpg)
Why Are These Labor Unions Opposing Medicare for All?
Unions are reluctant to give up their strongest selling point: members' access to quality health care.
![The World Health Organization estimates that violence in the health sector makes up a quarter of all assaults that take place on the job.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/12/2018_1218-health-400x300.jpg)
Workplace Violence Against Women Health Workers Hurts Us All
Estimates show that violence in the health sector makes up a quarter of all assaults in the workplace.
![Border patrol agents arrive at the border fence after about a dozen people who traveled from Central America found a small hole in the United States border fence and squeezed their way onto the beach in the United States on December 3, 2018, at the US-Mexican border in Tijuana, Mexico.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/12/GettyImages-1077058352-400x300.jpg)
The Dead End of “Comprehensive Immigration Reform”
It’s time for the immigrant justice movement to reject this solution touted by Democrats for the last 10 years.
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Congress Is Full of Rich People. How Can They Represent Us?
If we want policy that favors working people, we must elect more of them to Congress.
![Employee Maurice Vauss inspects the fit and finish of the 2013 Chevrolet Malibu Eco during final inspection on the assembly line in preparation for the Malibu's rollout to dealers across the US at the General Motors Fairfax Assembly Plant January 18, 2012, in Fairfax, Kansas.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/11/GettyImages-137366883-400x300.jpg)
After Reaping Billions in Public Subsidies, GM to Fire Nearly 15,000 Workers
GM's decision to gut its workforce epitomizes the bad corporate behavior Republicans in Congress have incentivized.