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Senate panel Oks corporate attorney for vacant NLRB seat
March 9, 2018Eager to break a partisan 2-2 tie on the NLRB, the Senate panel handling labor issues approved Morgan Lewis management-side partner John Ring for the board’s vacant fifth seat.
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Labor in China: “Harmonious Society” or class struggle?
March 9, 2018Communist Party leaders do not want to respond to worker discontent with an iron fist, but they do want labor peace. So the tension between class harmony and labor struggle goes on.
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Virginia legislature wages battle for Medicaid expansion
March 9, 2018In some Republican-held districts, poor working class people, including whites who voted for Trump in 2016, are in severe trouble over the issue of health care costs. So supporters of Medicaid expansion have seen a chance...
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Florida residents say no to arming teachers
March 9, 2018One local parent said: "Let our teachers teach and please do not ask them to be soldiers in the classroom. Leave that to trained law enforcement.”
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Low-wage workers, progressive Dems push minimum wage hike
March 9, 2018Half of the 26 million full-time minimum-wage workers and two-thirds of all minimum-wage workers including part-timers, are female, 11 million are parents and 4.5 million of them are single parents.
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