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Bachmann and Santorum spark furor over slavery, “family values”

July 14, 2011 By Tim Wheeler

How much slack are voters likely to cut Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum for signing a racist, gay-bashing "family values" pledge as they pandered to the bigots in their campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination?

Shipyard workers see chance to save their jobs

July 14, 2011 By John Wojcik

Workers, unions, community groups, small businesses and others in the fight to save 5,000 jobs at the Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans are feeling better now about the possibility of a victory.

Unionists say America needs collective bargaining

July 13, 2011 By Luis Rivas

"Our challenge is to build a movement that restores the American Dream," said Communications Workers of America President Larry Cohen.

GOP bashes labor board

July 11, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

Ruling Republicans on the intensely ideological House Education and the Workforce Committee seized on a National Labor Relations Board proposal to streamline union election processes to once again bash the agency and organized labor.

Debt-ceiling showdown: a test of sanity

July 7, 2011 By John Case

The so-called "debt ceiling" crisis is upon us and it's becoming a test of sanity how long it will take all reasonable people to conclude that the Republican Party has painted its teeth orange, and jumped...