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Latino leaders: “Hands off Social Security!”
January 21, 2011Organization representing more than 50 million Latinos are joining forces to defend Social Security.
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Health reform begins to affect union members covered on the job
January 21, 2011PORTLAND, Ore. - The Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, signed into law March 23, 2010, by Democratic President Barack Obama, is starting to affect health insurance plans that union members and their families are...
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AFL-CIO prez: Labor must reach out to survive
January 21, 2011DETROIT - Saying the labor movement has become too small and too inward-looking to defeat corporate power by itself, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told the Auto Workers legislative conference that unions must build wider coalitions to...
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Colombian labor leader seeks trade pact delay
January 21, 2011WASHINGTON (PAI) - Congress should delay the proposed U.S.-Colombia "free trade" agreement until a key Colombian law that leads to workers' oppression changes and law enforcement there improves, a top Colombian union leader says.
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Honeywell lockout threatens thousands in Illinois and Kentucky
January 21, 2011United Steelworkers local 7-669 and the Steelworkers international Union issued a well researched report this week outlining the health and safety hazards posed by the use of scab replacement workers to operate Honeywell's Metropolis Illinois plant.
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