Labor
Right-wing GOP Illinois Gov. Rauner plans to force state workers to strike
June 25, 2015Rauner's tactic is the latest in a nationwide campaign by the right, its business backers and its political puppets to trash workers, cut wages, destroy pensions and kill unions.
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Unions and allies get support for gas tax hike for highway-mass transit funding
June 24, 2015The legislation is important both for jobs creation and to repair and replace the nation's crumbling infrastructure and to repair, replace and upgrade bus and subway systems.
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Picking peas should bring a better life
June 19, 2015We're doing it so that our children can leave the fields and move forward. I want to give them a better life.
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House bill slashes $74 million from NLRB, shackling board
June 19, 2015Ruling Republicans on the House subcommittee that helps dole out federal funds slashed $74 million from the board's budget for the year.
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Report exposes vast web of secret Walmart tax shelters
June 18, 2015Walmart has built a vast, undisclosed network of 78 subsidiaries and branches in 15 overseas tax havens.
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