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New NLRB chief sees a future where workers rights top the agenda
February 28, 2009For years, as a member of the National labor Relations Board, she spoke out against the Bush-appointed majority on that board. For years she felt frustration over how, in ruling after ruling, that board interpreted key...
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Photo essay: Migrants toil to put food on our tables
February 28, 2009SANTA MARIA, Calif. — Guillermina Arzola, a Mixtec immigrant from San Sebastian del Monte in Oaxaca, Mexico, works in a crew of indigenous Mixtec and Zapotec farmworkers from Oaxaca and Guerrero, Mexico, picking strawberries here. The...
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Struggling workers, Biden and Solis to be part of AFL-CIO gathering
February 28, 2009MIAMI — Hilda Solis, the former Latina congresswoman from East Los Angeles and now the U.S. Secretary of Labor, south Florida workers reeling from the tanking economy, and national labor leaders will kick off a four...
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Bobby Jindal’s cynical anti-worker politics
February 28, 2009Louisiana's Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal launched his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination this week by delivering his party's response to President Barack Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress, Feb. 24. In his response,...
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Protectionism, an answer to the crisis?
February 28, 2009Translated by Laure Tallot (lHumanite) Recall the facts : The latest World Economic Forum in Davos at the end of January was the scene of alarmist statements about an alleged protectionist danger. At the origin of...
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