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Cuban trade unionist speaks in Los Angeles
April 5, 2011Gilda Chacon Bravo is the first Cuban trade union representative to be granted a visa to the United States in many years and is touring the country.
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Poll: Americans side with public workers and their unions
April 5, 2011Though unions are under attack in states from Wisconsin to Maine by tea party-backed Republican governors, they are winning the war of public opinion, according to the results of a new poll.
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Chicago activists call for environmental justice
April 5, 2011After years of community campaigns, investigations and pressure, the EPA finally confirmed high levels of toxic lead in the air and around local schools.
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After 64 years, still paying the price for Taft-Hartley
April 5, 2011How did the landmark anti-labor legislation, backed at that time by Joe McCarthy and Richard Nixon, come to be the law of the land?
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Across the country, hundreds of thousands declare, “We are One”
April 5, 2011In over a thousand U.S. cities, unionists, civil rights and community activists gathered April 4, honoring the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated 43 years earlier.
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