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July 11, 2025

Today in 1916
 The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce held a mass meeting of more than 2,000 merchants to organize what was to become a frontal assault on union strength and the closed shop. The failure of wages to keep up with inflation after the 1906 earthquake had spurred multiple strikes in the city.  
 

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Change is Coming to the Dept. of Labor. But How Much?
Updated On: Nov 25, 2024
Nov. 25, 2024 | WORKERS' RIGHTS | President-elect Donald Trump tapped outgoing Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore.) to lead the Labor Department — part of an avalanche of announcements that kept a good chunk of professional Washington glued to their work phones Friday evening. Chavez-DeRemer, who narrowly lost reelection earlier this month, is an unorthodox choice. She is one of just three House Republicans to embrace the PRO Act — the suite of union-friendly labor reforms that would completely shift the paradigm in worker-management relations if ever enacted — and she was one of eight GOP co-sponsors of a bill that would expand union rights for public-sector workers. That garnered her endorsements from several unions in Oregon, though not the state AFL-CIO. And Teamsters President Sean O’Brien championed her for the Labor role. Politico
 
 
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