Labor
Pressure grows on sugar company to end lockout
August 18, 2011The East Grand Forks, Minn., city council voted unanimously to send a letter urging American Crystal Sugar to return to negotiations with its locked-out workers.
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Ohio governor backtracks on union stripping bill
August 18, 2011Unions say that the historic petition drive and a late July Quinnipiac poll showing voters favoring repeal are likely explanations.
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Verizon threatens strikers with health care cutoff
August 18, 2011Workers this week will miss their first paycheck as result of the strike, now in its 11th day. Pension and disability benefits were suspended as the strike began.
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Trumpet-makers on strike get a brass band boost
August 17, 2011Facing cuts in wages and health care as well as total elimination of their pensions, workers at the highly profitable Conn-Selmer plant went on strike.
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Steelworkers “stand up, fight back” (with video)
August 17, 2011"Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed" - Lincoln's quote opened the United Steelworkers Convention.
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