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Barn owls face armageddon
January 27, 2014The barn owl population has declined from use of agricultural poisons and rat and mouse baits so popular in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Today in labor history: 109 coal miners die in explosion
January 27, 2014The coal miners were underpaid Eastern Europeans who were told not to complain about their substandard and dangerous working conditons.
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Pennsylvania unions cheer blocking of new voter ID law
January 27, 2014The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO is cheering a judge's ruling bouncing the state's GOP-passed "voter ID" law, but the story isn't over yet.
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Low wage workers at Pentagon walk out
January 27, 2014Low-wage workers at the focus of the nation's defense machine, the Pentagon, joined the lengthening list of fed-up workers who have walked off their jobs.
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Dark-money groups building campaign for “right to work” in Pa.
January 24, 2014KUTZTOWN, Pa. - The never-ending push for right to work (for less) legislation in Pennsylvania is on the move again, but this time there's more of a tangible campaign targeting the conservative base.
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