To the Point
The union movement, past and future
With union membership at an all-time low, organized labor is facing an existential crisis. President Trump supports Republican efforts to reduce union power — at the same time he's promised to improve working conditions. We look at the union movement — past and future.
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3 storiesClimate change skeptic Pruitt confirmed to head EPA
After a vote of 52 for and 46 against, the President of the US Senate today announced confirmation of Oklahoma's Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency.
Read the story7 minPresident Trump, organized labor and working Americans
The President helped unveil Boeing's new Dreamliner today in South Carolina -- at a plant where workers just rejected unionization by a vote of three-to-one. In half of America's state capitals, Republicans are enacting so-called "right-to-work" laws crippling unions by allowing employees not to pay dues.
Read the story34 minDeportation under Donald Trump
Barack Obama was known as the "Deporter in Chief." How much have things changed for undocumented immigrants since Donald Trump took over the White House?
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