Labor
Restaurant workers celebrate “first birthday”
November 10, 2010Instead of treating the day as a reminder of twelve months without a final victory, striking workers celebrated unity and solidarity - with a birthday party.
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Lame-duck Congress must act on jobs, union leaders say
November 10, 2010The Laborers Union is urging an outpouring of e-mail messages demanding passage of the Surface Transportation Act to put thousands back to work.
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U.S. Steel locks out Canadian workers
November 9, 2010The lockout is only the latest example of how Canadian government policies on foreign takeovers of Canadian firms fail workers.
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Working Families Party wins big in New York
November 5, 2010NEW YORK — On Election Day, voters in this state strongly rejected the Republican tide that swept much of the country - but they went a step farther in statewide races by giving more than 100,000...
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Shop Talk: Bucking bosses and closing unsafe mines
November 5, 2010Unionization victories at Piedmont Airlines, a labor/Democratic step against climate change, a federal push to shut unsafe mines - and more.
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