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19 arrested in attempt to stop school closings
March 8, 2013The mood was boisterous and upbeat as some 2,000 demonstrators massed outside Philadelphia School District headquarters in an attempt to stop threatened closing of nearly 30 public schools.
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Chicago unions go to bat for immigration reform
March 8, 2013Chicago's labor movement turned out in force yesterday to declare support for immediate reform of immigration law.
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Today in women’s history: International Women’s Day
March 8, 2013March 8, International Women's Day, grew from two sources -- the struggle of working women to form trade unions and the fight for women's right to vote.
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Household workers demand rights, bang pots and pans, with video
March 8, 2013Hundreds banged pots and pans here yesterday to launch a campaign for a Household Workers Bill of Rights.
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Unions go public with intent to overhaul their own structure
March 8, 2013The AFL-CIO will probe new ways of organizing itself and the broader labor movement and its allies to meet what it says are the changing times.
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