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AFL-CIO delegates walk out to join Black Lives Matter protesters
October 22, 2017To keep BLM activists out, every door was chained shut on the orders of convention center management. So AFL-CIO delegates left their hall to join the protest.
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Trudeau’s NAFTA demand against U.S. “right to work” is all show
October 21, 2017But the fact Canada’s leader also had to make that demand shows the power of organized labor north of the border.
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University of Chicago Research and Teacher assistants vote to unionize
October 21, 2017“Our overwhelming victory is a testament to our long-held belief: Graduate workers perform unquestionably valuable work and are the backbone of the University of Chicago."
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Brazil: Oligarchy versus the Amazon rainforest
October 20, 2017The accelerated pillage of Amazonia has made Brazil the world’s role model for environmental destruction.
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UFCW, top anti-poverty group oppose chicken industry speed-up scheme
October 20, 2017The poultry processors also say their no-speed-limit demand “is consistent with” the GOP Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda.
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