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Unions celebrate LGBTQ progress, say challenges remain

July 1, 2014 By Kenneth Quinnell

To become more inclusive, to increase efforts to protect transgender workers and to fight for state laws that prevent employers from firing workers for their sexual orientation or gender expression.

Supreme Court allows corporations to deny birth control coverage

June 30, 2014 By Susan Webb

The Supreme Court ruled that family-owned corporations can use religious objections to opt out of the Affordable Care Act requirement that they cover contraceptives for women.

Children fleeing violence and poverty

June 30, 2014 By Rossana Cambron

Displaced children as young as 13 are leaving their homes in Central America in greater numbers than ever before due to violence from wars involving the cartels, gang initiations and or extortion.

Supreme Court ruling robs workers of united voice on the job

June 30, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

In an anti-union decision, the Supreme Court voted to legalize "free riders" in cases where state or local governments and individuals jointly employ caregivers.

House panel’s GOP majority bashes NLRB – again

June 30, 2014 By PAI

For the 16th time in the sharply partisan 113th Congress, the radical right GOP majority on the House Education and the Workforce Committee bashed the NLRB.