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Future of the BRICS
July 18, 2014The BRICS group created a Shanghai-based development bank and a reserve fund to finance infrastructure projects and head off future economic crises.
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Teachers unions to Education Secretary Duncan: Leave!
July 18, 2014The AFT convention has a blunt message for Education Secretary Arne Duncan: You flunk the test of helping the nation's schools and kids, so leave.
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AFSCME helping 12,000 Chicago cab drivers unionize
July 17, 2014Over 1,000 delegates to the 41st AFSCME International Convention told the 12,000 cab drivers of this city who are trying to unionize that they are not alone.
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Today in labor history: Pullman strike leader murder sparks huge protest funeral
July 17, 2014During the Pullman strike, Charles Leonard, a representative of Omaha Railway murdered Charles Luth, a railroad switchman and union activist.
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AFL-CIO student interns organize on Tobacco Road
July 17, 2014AFL-CIO Union Summer interns have joined members of the FLOC in a drive to organize thousands of North Carolina tobacco farm workers.
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