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Port workers spend Labor Day on picket line

September 7, 2011 By Tim Wheeler

LONGVIEW, Wash. - Embattled dockworkers marched on their picket lines, Labor Day weekend, standing tall against EGT, the international grain consortium that seeks to break the union at their huge new grain terminal in the Port...

From Wal-Mart to hot dogs, courts important for workers

September 7, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

So you still don't think courts are important to workers? Betty Dukes and Nolan Koewler can quickly set you straight.

Labor history: 2011 marks unhappy anniversary on job safety

September 7, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

The year 2011 should serve as a reminder of how far the U.S. has come on job safety issues - and how far it has yet to go.

Workers blast threat to shut down U.S. Postal Service

September 6, 2011 By John Wojcik

Postal Service employees say threats by the U.S. Postal Service to shut down this winter because of a $9.2 billion deficit are part of a "manufactured crisis" designed to privatize the world's largest mail delivery system.

Secretary of Labor Solis signs migrant workers rights agreements with Latin American countries

September 5, 2011 By Emile Schepers

U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis signed agreements with three more Latin American countries (for a total of six) on the protection of certain rights of migrant workers. The right wing is, predictably, yelling "betrayal".