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AFL-CIO to unite with allies for job safety
September 16, 2013"The right to a safe job is a fundamental worker right. All workers should be able to go to work and return home safely at the end of the day."
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Today in labor history: Sept 11, 2001
September 11, 2013"Unity and solidarity can make us stronger. Mourning is not a cry for vengeance. Together we have to find a way out of the crisis. The Ground Zero solidarity can be turned toward the problems we...
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Labor takes a look behind kitchen door
September 9, 2013The second-largest private sector industry in America has a big problem: its workers are paid unlivable wages, and typically cannot eat the very food they are putting on customers' tables.
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Given three years to live, he fights to save co-workers
August 27, 2013OSHA announced a new proposed federal rule - long pushed by the Steelworkers and other unions - to cut down worker exposure to silica. OSHA estimated the rule would prevent 700 deaths yearly.
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Idaho blackened by brushfire
August 20, 2013The 104,000-acre Beaver Creek wildfire has been appropriately described as a "beast." What most of the media is not reporting is the disaster's tie to climate change.
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