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Navy hired company blocking union organizing rights

March 3, 2014 By PAI

An Australian ship building company in Mobile, Ala., hired by the Navy is forcing workers to follow bad construction plans and, at the same time, is blocking their effort to unionize.

Union leaders hail Obama infrastructure push

March 3, 2014 By PAI

"The president wants to push for public and private infrastructure investment, we say bring it on. Union workers stand ready to meet the needs of the largest project you can think up."

“Step closer to equality”: Texas judge overthrows gay marriage ban

February 28, 2014 By Kelly Sinclair

In his ruling, the San Antonio judge wrote that the same-sex marriage ban "violates plaintiffs' equal protection and due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution."

After gas explosion, Chevron offers victims free pizza

February 28, 2014 By Blake Skylar

The Chevron-owned fracking well shot flames into the air with a powerful boom, starting a fire that burned intensely for four days afterward before it was extinguished.

Ukrainian ultra-rightists given major cabinet posts in government

February 28, 2014 By Greg Rose

The Svoboda Party has scored six cabinet ministries in the government of Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Thursday. Svoboda is an ultra-right, anti-Semitic, Russophobic party with its base of support in the Western Ukraine.