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Today in labor history: KKK found guilty of conspiracy in death of Viola Liuzzo

December 3, 2013

Liuzzo, who came from a working-class Detroit family and had lived in the South as a child, traveled to Alabama after the Selma to Montgomery marches and the "Bloody Sunday" attack at Edmund Pettus Bridge.

Plant owner gets 20 years in slammer for workers’ deaths

December 3, 2013 By Mike Hall

OSHA's investigation of the 2010 explosion at a gunpowder plant in Colebrook, N.H., resulted in the issuance of 16 willful and more than 30 serious safety violation citations, along with a $1.2 million penalty

GOP blocks immigration reform

December 3, 2013 By Emile Schepers

As the year 2013 draws to an end, the fight for immigrants' rights, and especially for the legalization of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants believed to be in the United States, continues.

Buried in my grave, before I’ll be a Walmart slave!

December 3, 2013

Walmart workers striking for higher wages here have added the element of song to their picketing, marching and chanting.

San Jose won’t give up on immigration reform

December 2, 2013 By Henry Millstein

Protestors called on Congress and the Obama administration to stop deportations and enact comprehensive immigration reform, making it clear that they weren't going to stand idly by while the Republicans in the House leadership block a...