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Ashtabula workers give GOP rep an earful
March 2, 2011During a town hall meeting in Ohio this week hundreds of community and labor activists rallied against a Republican-led state senate bill that would destroy collective bargaining rights for public workers.
Read morePro-union rallies spread, message deepens
February 28, 2011For many who feel the country has been hijacked by corporate power the union democratic model is appealing.
Read moreOhio fights attack on labor
February 21, 2011Former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, the state AFL-CIO and its affiliates have called for a massive turnout for a rally Tuesday at the Statehouse in Columbus to protest a Republican bill to repeal collective bargaining for...
Read moreFight over Social Security is on
January 31, 2011The 112th Congress is barely under way and a fight has already broken out - on partisan lines, of course - over Social Security and Medicare.
Read moreFilibuster curbs defeated
January 28, 2011A campaign backed by organized labor, to curb the power of Senate minorities to halt virtually every piece of legislation by filibustering, went down in flames in the tradition-bound chamber on Jan. 27.
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