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Bush officials orchestrated company’s attacks on Indian “guest workers”
February 08, 2010Bush administration agencies instructed a major corporation on how to harass and deport hundreds of Indian "guest workers" who were protesting their working conditions, newly released documents show.
Read moreObama takes Volcker out of freezer, turns up heat on Wall Street
February 06, 2010A lot of folks feel the move by Obama has come not a moment too soon.
Read morePentagon leaders say they favor gays serving openly
February 04, 2010In a historic first, the Pentagon's top leaders called this week for an end to "don't ask, don't tell," the policy.
Read moreLabor Dept.sends message to bosses: shape up
February 03, 2010President Obama plans to beef up workplace regulations.
Read moreSenate moving toward smaller jobs bill
February 02, 2010The jobs bill now being drafted in the Senate, only half the size of the one passed by the House in December, is "not enough."
Read moreAfter Supreme Court ruling, unions fear opening of corporate cash floodgates
February 02, 2010Leaders of the nation's largest unions came out in unanimous opposition to the recent Supreme Court ruling that allows corporations to spend as much as they like to influence the outcome of elections in the United States.
Read moreLabor backs president's emphasis on jobs
January 28, 2010Union leaders reacting last night and today to President Obama's State of the Union address praised his emphasis on job creation.
Read moreSenate defeats deficit commission
January 27, 2010Labor and progressive groups scored a victory yesterday with the defeat of the undemocratic deficit commission in the Senate.
Read moreObama deficit control plan draws fire
January 26, 2010President Obama's plan to announce a spending freeze for some domestic programs during his State of the Union address tomorrow is drawing fire.
Read moreDon Belton: How homophobia turned love into death
January 25, 2010The mutilated body of Don Belton, an African American English professor at Indiana University, was found in his Bloomington apartment three days after Christmas.
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