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Nationwide, workers lead local movements to raise wages
March 19, 2014Working families across the country have been leading movements to raise wages at the state and local level.
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Fast food workers protest wage theft
March 19, 2014Elected officials, clergy, community, and union members joined in a spirited protest outside the McDonalds in this city's Fair Haven neighborhood Mar. 18.
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Loss of life in Harlem the price paid for crumbling infrastructure
March 19, 2014It's no coincidence that the collapsed buildings were served by a 127 year-old gas main; those in the labor movement are feeling the unfortunate burden of vindication.
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Chicago residents fight to shut down petcoke operations
March 18, 2014Truth is stranger than fiction, so don't be surprised that the Koch Brothers, BP, and a web of multinationals have been hedging bets and kicking up dust on an industrial corridor of working-class neighborhoods between Chicago...
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Mailman wonders how he made it through the winter
March 18, 2014A National Weather Service meteorologist has given Metro Detroit the number # 1 ranking in its "misery index." And I deliver mail on foot, house to house, six days a week. That probably explains why I...
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