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Black Caucus meet: “Vote like you never did before!”

September 28, 2012 By Jarvis Tyner

Some 10,000 participants from all over the country gathered here at the Congressional Black Caucus annual meeting earlier this month to listen, discuss and speak their minds.

Mexican supermarket workers and union condemn E-Verify

September 28, 2012 By David Bacon

Mexican supermarket (mercado) workers, supporters and union organizers marched through the Latino immigrant community on San Jose's East Side.

Unions back universities in race and admissions Supreme Court case

September 28, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Declaring that, still, "race matters" in schools and society, unionsare siding with top universities in a U.S. Supreme Court case on the role of race in college admissions.

Trumka urges white working-class men to back Warren in Mass.

September 28, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Using unusually strong language, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka waded into the neck-and-neck Massachusetts U.S. Senate.

$Is the fracking industry bribing professors?$

Is the fracking industry bribing professors?

September 27, 2012 By Blake Skylar

The University of Texas plans to organize experts to review a report on fracking after learning that the professor who wrote it is in the pocket of the natural gas industry.