Labor
Raise the minimum wage
March 28, 2012Despite claims of economic recovery heard recently, median weekly worker income for most months of the past two years, just like most years of the past 35 years, is either flat, or less, than the year...
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Steve Cooper, trade union, civil rights activist dies at 77
March 28, 2012Steve Cooper, a longtime trade union, civil rights activist and member of the Los Angeles Metro Club of the Communist Party died recently in Los Angeles. He was 77.
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Teamsters highlight contradictions in Mexican trucks case
March 28, 2012The Teamsters have apparently caught the Obama Transportation Department in several contradictions.
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Labor hits delay on new safety rule
March 28, 2012The Obama administration's Office of Management and Budget is sitting on - apparently indefinitely - a proposed job safety rule to cut worker exposure to silica dust.
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Oaklanders demand justice for Trayvon Martin
March 27, 2012Protesters, many wearing hoodies and carrying Skittles and cans of iced tea, gathered in front of City Hall March 26 to express solidarity with the family of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.
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