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Venezuelan opposition attacks Cuban health workers

April 29, 2014 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Cuban doctors contribute to the long term construction of systems of public health throughout the global South, health systems that were abandoned or disregarded during decades of neo-liberalism.

Community and labor unite in fundraiser for VW workers

April 28, 2014 By A.J. Sorenson

Chattanooga for Workers hosted a potluck fundraiser to help send some Volkswagen workers to Washington DC for a national speak out on the truth about working at Volkswagen.

Today in eco-history: Chernobyl disaster announced to public

April 28, 2014 By Blake Skylar

On this day in 1986, continuing high levels of radiation emerging from the Chernobyl disaster led Soviet authorities to publically announce the accident.

Teachers union leaders hit Supreme Court anti-affirmative action ruling

April 25, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

NEA President Dennis Van Roekel, a Phoenix secondary school teacher, said it subjects minority group students to "separate and unequal political processes that put undue burdens" on them.

Cleveland workers protest Staples post office counters

April 25, 2014 By Mike OMalley

The Postal Service has set up U.S. mail service counters in 82 Staples stores throughout the country. The workers at those counters are non-union Staples employees, not union postal workers.