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Today in labor history: Army attacks protesting veterans in D.C.
July 28, 2014On July 28, 1932, General Douglas MacArthur led troops in burning to the ground a shantytown built near the U.S. Capitol by unemployed veterans demanding a promised bonus.
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GOP pushing Labor Department to go easy on wage theft
July 28, 2014"One key to economic recovery is vigorous enforcement of wage and hour protections, so workers are paid what they earn, and can pump money back into their local economies."
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NAACP: “Our agenda is essential” for democracy
July 25, 2014The nation's oldest, largest, and most widely known civil rights organization convened to address the need to push back against voter suppression and other significant topics.
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Kellogg’s lockout of bakery workers headed for court
July 25, 2014The NLRB seeks a court injunction ordering Kellogg's to take the workers back and bargain in good faith with their BCTGM, locked out last Oct.
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Judicial finding in Chile says U.S. complicit in death of young Americans
July 25, 2014A U.S. military officer practically delivered the two young Americans, Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, to the military dictatorship of Pinochet, who had both of them executed.
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