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Chicago rally: Hands off Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid

July 25, 2011 By Beatrice Lumpkin

It was 101 degrees in the shade, but that didn't stop 200 white-haired retirees and others from rallying against any cuts to these programs.

1,000 demand “Good Jobs Now” at Progressive Caucus speakout

July 23, 2011 By Tim Wheeler

SEATTLE - People lined up at microphones at a July 23 "speak out" here to demand that Congress stop kowtowing to the corporations and do what voters elected them to do: create good jobs at a...

Unions hit GOP’s “Boeing Bill”

July 22, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

What it really is, union leaders say, is a move to strip the NLRB of much of its power to rule for and protect workers' rights.

It’s our turn: Campaign to repeal Senate Bill 5 takes off

July 22, 2011 By Rick Nagin

"You will take this fight over the finish line," AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka told Ohio union leaders yesterday. "You will restore the rights of 365,000 public employees!"

Verizon workers to take strike vote July 25 (video)

July 22, 2011 By Teresa Albano

Verizon workers and retirees face the fight of their lives, as the profitable telecom corporation tries to take back every hard-earned benefit.