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NLRB casting jaundiced eye against forced arbitrations

January 6, 2016 By Mark Gruenberg

If you signed an employment contract in the past 15 years, you likely also signed away your rights to sue your employer if you get fired for bad reasons.

Prospective settlement in fiery Quebec oil train crash

January 6, 2016 By PAI

A settlement with victims of an oil train crash in Lac-Mégantic still leaves the train's engineer and dispatcher, both Steelworkers, facing trial.

Supreme Court hears Texas plan to replace democracy with oligarchy

January 6, 2016 By Larry Rubin

Once again, right wingers have come up with a scheme to dilute and diminish the voting power of minorities, and they might get what they want.

After leak, methane plagues Porter Ranch, California

January 5, 2016 By Blake Skylar

The well from which it came lacked a working safety valve; while one was supposed to be implemented back in 1979, the company failed to do this.

A progressive guide to the primaries

January 5, 2016 By C.J. Atkins

All the debates, rallies, and fundraisers have been preparing the ground for February 2016, when the first actual ballots of this year's election will be cast.