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Oil spill on Ohio River

August 29, 2014 By Blake Skylar

Cleanup crews are working to gather and dispose of the oil, and the U.S. Coast Guard has closed a 15-mile stretch of the Ohio River.

War talk re Syria ratchets up

August 29, 2014 By Susan Webb

But it is spurring worries of another misguided U.S. military undertaking, escalating war and chaos, with the people of the region bearing the brunt.

Outrage over plea bargain in burning death of lab worker

August 28, 2014 By PAI

A plea-bargained small settlement in the case of a CWA worker who burned to death in an unsafe college chemical laboratory has outraged both her family and her union.

The Democracy Initiative: A national campaign caught fire

August 28, 2014 By PAI

The CWA created the Democracy Initiative after seeing how a combination of political factors combined to thwart pro-democracy/pro-worker legislation and initiatives.

U.S. schools more segregated than in 1954

August 28, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

The new segregation, by class and income, harms students just as the old state-legalized segregation in the Solid South did.