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Subway fires worker for giving a 3-year-old a cookie
October 15, 2013We've heard of ridiculous excuses companies use to fire pro-union workers, but a Seattle Subway shop takes the cake...er, cookie. Working Washington reports the firm fired Carlos Hernandez for giving a 66-cent cookie, free, to a...
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“Let us work,” say government workers
October 14, 2013It's hurting our communities, said demonstrators in downtown Detroit protesting the tea party led government shutdown.
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Today in labor history: Black inventor Henry Blair patents cotton planter
October 14, 2013In 1857 patent rights were denied to slaves and were restored after the Civil War. Blair died in 1860, the year the war began.
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Shutdown puts hundreds of thousands in dire straits
October 14, 2013About half a million federal employees remain locked out of their jobs due to the shutdown.
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The tea party gang and the “F” word
October 14, 2013The tea party is not your typical conservative group. They are as close to fascist as you can get away with today.
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