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Corporations, courts, right wingers gang up on workers to kill overtime extension
December 1, 2016A federal judge in Texas has bowed to the wishes of corporate lobbying groups and has blocked a measure that would have increased by 12.5 million the number of workers eligible to receive overtime pay.
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Hundreds of thousands of workers walk out for $15 and a union
December 1, 2016From Washington to Los Angeles to Chicago, from Maine to Minnesota to Phoenix, low-wage workers – including fast food workers, airport workers, adjunct professors, home health care workers and for the first time, Uber drivers –...
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The system IS rigged: The Electoral College and the 2016 election
December 1, 2016Donald Trump was right: the system is rigged! But it is rigged for the Republicans, not the Democrats, for conservatives, not progressives.
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Remembering Shirley Chisholm
November 30, 2016According to Chisholm: “You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.”
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Teachers, civil rights groups call on Trump to denounce hate, bigotry
November 30, 2016At a Nov. 29 media conference, the Southern Poverty Law Center said it documented 867 bias-related incidents in the 10 days following Election Day.
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