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Trumpet-makers on strike get a brass band boost
August 17, 2011Facing cuts in wages and health care as well as total elimination of their pensions, workers at the highly profitable Conn-Selmer plant went on strike.
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Steelworkers “stand up, fight back” (with video)
August 17, 2011"Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed" - Lincoln's quote opened the United Steelworkers Convention.
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Another hot Wisconsin election today, after big labor push
August 16, 2011Wisconsin workers are flocking to the polls today to defend two state senators who challenged Gov. Scott Walker's attack on union organizing rights.
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Protesters target BART for cell phone cutoff
August 16, 2011The rowdy but nonviolent roving protest was directed both at the BART's cell phone shutdown and BARTs police' fatal shooting of a homeless man last month.
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St. Louis labor and community rallies to support Verizon strikers
August 16, 2011CWA members, union supporters and community activists rallied outside of a St. Louis Verizon store.
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