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Walmart has been hit by coordinated strikes at multiple stores simultaneously in different cities in a worker protest that has lasted three months. The strikes were coordinated on social media.

They happened in China.

Not only that, but these protest strikes are worker organized without any help from labor organizations. Two workers set up an online platform to mobilize support for the strikes. The striking, protesting workers call themselves the “Walmart China Workers’ Association” (WCWA).

AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka says American workers need a president who sees workers as "partners to be engaged, not as subjects to be manipulated."

Trumka says workers don't need a savior to speak for us, we want to raise up our own voices through unions.

More than a hundred national organizations are calling on President Obama to use presidential pardon powers by "issuing a pardon for lawfully present immigrants with years-old or low-level criminal offenses."

Walter Barrientos is a lead organizer with Make The Road New York.

The biggest political lesson Democrats have to understand is that the November election was lost in the industrial Midwest because for decades Democrats failed to meet the real needs of working people.

That's the conclusion of a new paper from the Economic Policy Institute's Jeff Faux.

Just days before the November election the National Labor Relations Board ordered Trump Hotel Las Vegas to stop breaking labor law and negotiate with workers who voted to join the Culinary Workers union.

Culinary Workers spokesperson Bethany Hahn, speaking on WBAI's Building Bridges program, says the President-Elect continues to disrespect both his workers and federal law by refusing to bargain with those workers. The Culinary Workers Union is calling for a boycott of all Trump hotels and golf courses.

The Electoral College cast it's votes for Trump for President Monday - using a system set up by slave owners designed to override the power of the popular vote.

Nearly three million more Americans cast their ballots for a different president.  Just 538 people decided our political fate.

The vast majority of Americans, no matter their candidate of choice, voted to rewrite the economic rules that have for too long left working people weaker and poorer. When it comes to the economic security of our families and communities, one of the most important decisions every incoming president must make is choosing who will serve in his or her Cabinet. These are immensely powerful positions that have a direct say on everything from wages to workplace safety to consumer protection to good schools to health and retirement security.

Wednesday’s decision by the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates is unwelcome and unnecessary. As admitted in its statement, investment remains soft, growth is only moderate and inflation expectations are little changed. Moreover, the economy confronts financial head-winds from the recent jump in long-term interest rates and an even stronger dollar.

Several organizations from Public Citizen to Common Cause to MoveOn will deliver petitions to Trump's hotels Thursday addressing the presidential conflicts of interest created by Trump's businesses.

These activists say the conflicts of interest in his role as president and business owner will unavoidably influence public policy-making, including U.S. foreign policy.

Fight For $15 movement supporters in New York City are using a Workers Forum to begin to chart the course for making $15 an hour real in New York.

Low wage workers, unions, and city and state officials are coming together to defend economic security and dignity for workers under the incoming Trump administration.