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August 18, 2026

Today in 1932
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) receives a charter from the American Federation of Labor. The union was born during the Great Depression, when wage cuts and furloughs were the rule in an economy that was steadily contracting. Today, AFGE is the largest federal employee union, representing 820,000 federal and D.C. government workers nationwide and overseas.

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Teamsters Review WALL-E (Two Decades Later)
Posted On: Aug 17, 2026
Aug. 17, 2026 | ECONOMY | If you’ve seen WALL-E, Pixar’s Oscar-winning film from 2008, you remember the premise: an abandoned Earth buried in trash, a single mega-corporation running life from a spaceship above, and fat/lazy/unemployed humans drifting on autopilot while robots do all the work. It was supposed to be an exaggerated allegory. Nearly 20 years later, it feels like the not-so-distant future. Because if you look beyond the animation and love story, WALL-E isn’t really about a robot. It’s about work — what happens when it disappears, who controls it, and what’s left behind when corporations decide people are no longer necessary. Continued at Just Cause Teamsters
 
 
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