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CEO pay increases to 347 times average workers

May 9, 2017 By Carolyn Bobb

According to the new AFL-CIO Executive PayWatch, the average CEO of an S&P 500 company made $13.1 million per year in 2016 – 347 times more money than the average rank-and-file worker.

Oklahoma outlaws “conspiring” to support protestors

May 9, 2017 By Larry Rubin

"It's the Donald Trump trend at the state level."

What happens in the South doesn’t stay in the South

May 9, 2017 By Dan Graff

From the Walmart-ization of labor practices to mass incarceration to right-to-work, the South has long been a laboratory for reactionary policies that eventually go nationwide.

Angry voters taking action against GOP Reps who voted to destroy Obamacare

May 8, 2017 By Larry Rubin

"If you vote to destroy our health care this year, we’ll vote to elect your replacement next year."

Brazil: Temer coup government rocked by general strike

May 8, 2017 By Lucivania Nascimento dos Santos

Brazil's president wants to raise the retirement age to 75. Workers responded with a general strike paralyzing the country, while police hit back with violence.