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Court gives low-paid Alabama workers a win for higher pay
August 2, 2018“The federal appeals court’s decision today affirmed state lawmakers discriminated against the city’s predominantly black workforce in stealing away their minimum wage increase."
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South Africa’s women demand an end to gender-based violence
August 2, 2018South Africa joins the list of countries around the world in which women are on the march for basic human rights that have been denied them for far too long.
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Trumka: Kavanaugh would skew Supreme Court for the elite
August 1, 2018“Working people expect the Supreme Court to be the most fair branch of government. Does anybody believe that’s true anymore?”
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August 1, 1917: The murder of Frank Little
August 1, 2018Within a month of Frank Little’s 1917 lynching at the hands of the copper bosses of Montana, the U.S. government launched the fiercest attack against the working class in our history.
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Jewish Labor Committee, Weingarten blast undemocratic Israeli law
August 1, 2018“We condemn this despicable law, as well as the anti-gay surrogacy law the Knesset recently enacted."
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