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Are children working on Minnesota school construction sites?

July 24, 2014 By Barb Kucera

The Laborers International Union identified a second possible case of child labor on Minnesota construction sites and has alerted authorities at both the state and national level.

Letter carriers: U.S. mail not for sale!

July 24, 2014 By Ben Sears

Letter carriers are concerned about the privatization threat and the threat to eliminate Saturday delivery, and about attempts to end door to door delivery service altogether.

Chicagoans take to the streets against school cuts

July 23, 2014 By Scott Hiley

The meeting came on the heels of the announcement that CPS was cutting over $50 million from neighborhood schools and diverting it to politically connected charter school.

Postal workers and supporters rally to save the mail

July 23, 2014 By John Wojcik And Beatrice Lumpkin

Chants of "U.S. mail is not for sale" echoed through the canyons of Chicago's downtown skyscrapers as thousands of union postal workers, teachers and other supporters rallied

Ukraine itself burns in wake of airliner shoot-down

July 23, 2014 By Emile Schepers

People with their own agendas push their versions of who is to blame, there is a shooting war between military forces and local militias, and half a million refugees have crossed into Russia.