LOADING ERROR LOADING The Major League Baseball Players Association plans to join the AFL-CIO labor federation, putting one of professional sports’ top unions in a formal alliance with other labor groups. “Whether you’re working on the pitch or on a baseball field or on a construction site, we’re all concerned about safe workplaces.” - Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO …
Joe Biden frequently says that he wants to emulate Franklin D. Roosevelt, the president most revered among American liberals. Roosevelt refused to take a strong stand against the "sit-down strike," a controversial labor tactic that posed a direct challenge to major industrial employers. In a sit-down strike, workers would literally seize the means of production, "sitting down" in a factory, …
