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Pickets in 31 states slam Social Security cuts
March 3, 2011Across the country, people are picketing proposed GOP cuts to Social Security - though the program has never added a cent to the federal budget.
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Walker ignores court order, locks out Wisconsin protesters
March 2, 2011A judge's order yesterday requiring Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to allow full public access to the Capitol here is being ignored by the governor and the state's Republicans.
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Ohio labor vows to fight anti-labor bill
March 2, 2011Massive rallies and town hall meetings in Ohio are underway as state lawmakers move to pass an anti-labor bill that would end 28 years of collective bargaining rights and break public employee unions.
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Top labor leader says protests hike support for unions
March 2, 2011"People are giving the labor movement another look now," AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said at a press conference here March 1.
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Ashtabula workers give GOP rep an earful
March 2, 2011During a town hall meeting in Ohio this week hundreds of community and labor activists rallied against a Republican-led state senate bill that would destroy collective bargaining rights for public workers.
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