Today in 2009 The U.S. Department of Labor reports that the nation’s unemployment rate soared to 8.1 percent in February, the highest since late 1983, as cost-cutting employers slashed 651,000 jobs amid a deepening recession.
• The tough fight to organize Amazon • Nearly 9,000 Teamster rail workers ratify contract • Was the Teamsters’ Amazon strike a success? • Maryland signs labor deal with firefighters, police unions • 10 indicators explain what’s going on with America’s economy • Teamsters President, Labor Secretary discuss issues important to members • US labor market holding steady, but job opportunities are dwindling • Baltimore City sanitation workers to Baltimore City Council: ‘Please help us’ • Trump orders layoffs at 7 agencies as unions secure jobs for probationary workers • A brief history of America’s long struggle to establish a health care safety net • Teamsters endorses bill that would ban autonomous vehicles from making deliveries
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