Labor
Why 2016 is all about raising pay
June 15, 2015How has the middle class dissolved and childhood poverty risen while we continue to create more millionaires and billionaires?
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Labor-led coalition deals blow to trade deal
June 15, 2015The TPP deal would trash workers' rights, kill jobs, and open the floodgates to new rounds of outsourcing.
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House votes to stand with workers on trade
June 12, 2015"The voices of everyone working to ensure future trade deals safeguard workers and the environment have been heard."
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It’s always baseball season for Steelworkers at Louisville Slugger
June 12, 2015The workers produce, on average, 3,200 bats each day for souvenirs and retail sale and about 300 bats per day for major league baseball players.
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Delta baggage handler files suit over retaliatory firing
June 12, 2015Hedges has been active in trying to organize a union among ground workers at Delta and in 15Now, a movement to raise wages among airport workers to $15 an hour.
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