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Postal workers’ hunger strike over, victory declared

December 26, 2012 By Communities and Postal Workers United

The hunger strikers called on postal management to suspend cuts and closures and allow Congress to fix the finances by repealing the prefunding mandate and refunding the pension surplus.

Could you survive on $2 a day?

December 18, 2012 By Gabriel Thompson

Nearly 1.4 million American households live on that much per person.

Missourians: Real deficit is the jobs deficit

December 13, 2012 By Tony Pecinovsky

"We cannot cut our way to job creation," the Rev. Roosevelt Broadnax told labor and community allies.

Uproar, protests, as Michigan house passes right-to-work law

December 7, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Amid protests, arrests, a lockout from the state capitol building and a Democratic walkout, the GOP-run Michigan House passed a so-called "right to work" law on Dec. 6.

Locked out sugar workers reject deal for fourth time

December 3, 2012 By John Wojcik

This is the fourth time members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union have voted down an identical offer.