U.S.
Oakland City Council OK’s plans for Army base
June 21, 2012The agreement with developers includes precedent-setting community benefits provisions to hire local workers and involve the community in ensuring compliance.
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Planned new $1B U.S.-Canada bridge to create thousands of jobs
June 21, 2012A new billion-dollar bridge between Detroit and Windsor., the busiest border crossing from Canada to the U.S., will create 10,000 new jobs on the U.S. side, and it'll be built with U.S. and Canadian steel.
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Labor and people’s history: Goodman, Chaney, Schwerner murdered in Mississippi
June 21, 2012On June 21st, 1964 in Mississippi civil rights activists Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner went missing.
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The V-word Ohio GOP doesn’t want you to hear
June 20, 2012CLEVELAND - "Vote! - that is the other V-word they don't want to hear," Kellie Copeland told a crowd of 150 at a forum on the War on Women here Tuesday.
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Some Republican anti-labor moves derailed, the fight goes on
June 20, 2012Three narrow votes in a key Senate committee and some crafty maneuvering by Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., derailed anti-labor schemes that right-wing Republican senators hatched and floated in mid-June.
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