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Missouri workers fight anti-union legislation
April 1, 2014"HB 1617 is a patronizing bill that doesn't treat state workers like adults, it treats them like children who don't know what they are doing when they sign an authorization card to join a union."
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Students support successful union drive for campus workers
April 1, 2014Cafeteria workers, angry at cuts made by management, approached Local 1000 in Grapevine, who sent organizers and the new leader of the Young Workers Council to the university.
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Philippine government signs historic peace deal
April 1, 2014The deal grants largely Muslim areas of the southern Mindanao region greater political autonomy in exchange for an end to armed rebellion.
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Today in eco-history: Ruins of Pompeii discovered
April 1, 2014"The excavation of Pompeii brought to light not just individual buildings and artifacts, but an urban fabric."
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Today in women’s history: Abigail Adams attacked sexism, “fomented rebellion”
March 31, 2014On March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams urged the Continental Congress and her husband, John Adams, to consider women's rights.
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