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Today in women’s history: International Women’s Day
March 8, 2013March 8, International Women's Day, grew from two sources -- the struggle of working women to form trade unions and the fight for women's right to vote.
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Household workers demand rights, bang pots and pans, with video
March 8, 2013Hundreds banged pots and pans here yesterday to launch a campaign for a Household Workers Bill of Rights.
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Unions go public with intent to overhaul their own structure
March 8, 2013The AFL-CIO will probe new ways of organizing itself and the broader labor movement and its allies to meet what it says are the changing times.
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Impending disaster uncovered at Louisiana refinery
March 8, 2013An EPA inspection uncovered numerous air quality and job safety and health violations that ExxonMobil did not report at the nation's second largest oil refinery.
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Labor says tax millionaires to protect Social Security
March 8, 2013"Ninety-four percent of the country pays Social Security taxes on all their income. Six percent do not. This has got to change."
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