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Fast food workers plan civil disobedience as employers “freak out” over NLRB ruling
July 31, 2014The "$15 and a union" campaign won an NLRB decision that could dramatically change the organizing landscape in favor of fast food workers.
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Labor leaders say from now on union organizing will be different
July 31, 2014America's union leaders and the workers they represent are not going to take it anymore; they are determined to fight the attacks on labor.
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Voter suppression: NAACP strategizes to turn out vote in 2014
July 30, 2014As the 2014 midterm elections quickly approach, the battle against voter suppression is still being waged.
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Cuba Caravanistas welcomed in Dallas
July 30, 2014Participants explained why they are going: "To deliver aid to our brothers and sisters in Cuba as a direct challenge to the U.S. government's cruel and immoral economic blockade."
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Today in labor history: Medicare and Medicaid established
July 30, 2014The ongoing fight to protect Medicare and Medicaid today from right-wing "reforms" is in sharp contrast to the victory of July 30, 1965.
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