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AFL-CIO backs “people’s movement” in Middle East

August 5, 2011 By James Parks

The executive council praised the role workers and independent trade unions are playing in the popular mobilizations against corrupt, oppressive regimes.

Fight to end sex trafficking

August 5, 2011 By Brian McAfee

One of the most significant scourges worldwide is the ongoing exploitation and sexual abuse of over 2 million girls, and sometimes boys, through sex trafficking.

Unions say “voter ID” is Jim Crow revisited

August 5, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

The AFL-CIO is mapping plans to educate its members, other workers and the wider electorate in how to overcome efforts to suppress the right to vote.

Castro reports progress, criticizes religious discrimination

August 5, 2011 By Emile Schepers

Raul Castro gave a generally upbeat report on economic and other progress, but sharply criticized the tendency of some officials to allow old habits to become obstacles to change.

Right wing running scared in Wisconsin

August 5, 2011 By Dominique Paul Noth

With the first big electoral test of whether organized labor can successfully push back at the polls against the radical right, it is apparent here that labor's opponents are running scared.