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Today in labor history: Massachusetts establishes first minimum wage
June 4, 2013Much later, in 1938, the country would get a federal minimum wage law under the Fair Labor Standards Act. But this initial law was still a powerful move.
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Maryland’s Gov. O’Malley pushes jobs program
June 4, 2013"There is no progress without jobs, and there are no jobs without fiscal responsibility."
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Union BBQs for strikers on way to Walmart shareholders meet
June 4, 2013Union brothers and sisters and community supporters organized a barbecue for a caravan of striking Walmart workers who stopped in Orlando on May 28.
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Cancer patients more likely to go bankrupt
June 4, 2013Cancer patients are twice as likely to file for bankruptcy as people without cancer, a study in Washington State has found.
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Police told to find Neruda murderer
June 4, 2013Forty years after the death of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, a judge ordered police to find the man that prosecutors allege may have been instrumental in poisoning him.
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