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On the Gulf, bipartisan backing for federal money, and unions

July 25, 2011 By John Wojcik

The enormous tasks of rebuilding after Katrina also has at least one local Republican siding with the unions.

Locked out on the Great Lakes

July 25, 2011 By Bruce Bostick

The epidemic of corporate greed sweeping our nation is alive and well on the Great Lakes.

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.