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Workers hit streets to repeal union-buster SB 5
October 31, 2011Labor activists held a rally in Cleveland to mobilize voter turnout in the Nov. 8 election to defeat Issue 2 and repeal SB 5, the law that strips public employees collective bargaining rights.
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Miners demand prosecution of Massey execs
October 31, 2011Mine workers are now demanding criminal prosecution of 18 Massey Coal Company executives - including retired CEO Don Blankenship - for "industrial homicide."
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Call goes out for solidarity with striking Colombian palm oil workers
October 28, 2011Thousands of palm oil workers are now on a general strike in Colombia.
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Eyewitness describes brutality in tobacco fields
October 28, 2011"What we saw was never to be imagined: When the work day ends, farm workers - men, women, and children - returned to grim camps."
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Occupy Oaklanders vigil for injured vet
October 28, 2011On the evening of Oct. 27, over a thousand people held a vigil for Iraq veteran Scott Olsen, seriously hurt two days earlier when he was struck in the head by a police tear gas canister.
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