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GOP bashes labor board

July 11, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

Ruling Republicans on the intensely ideological House Education and the Workforce Committee seized on a National Labor Relations Board proposal to streamline union election processes to once again bash the agency and organized labor.

New campaign mobilizes for caregivers and those they serve

July 11, 2011 By Tiffany Williams

In addition to poor working conditions, unstable pay, and the lack of respect that are endemic to the care industry as a whole, care workers also face a unique legal barrier to obtaining just working conditions.

Retirees mobilize to defend Social Security, Medicare

July 10, 2011 By Joelle Fishman

Rep. Murphy said that if the cap on Social Security taxes on high incomes was raised, the solvency of the fund would be secured for the future.

Obama defends collective bargaining on Twitter

July 8, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

Obama was using Twitter to go over the heads of the press corps, and to address people who don't read papers or watch TV but rely on social media.

Europe and U.S. have same problem: capitalism

July 8, 2011 By Sam Webb

Major sections of capital believe the debt crisis gives them a golden opportunity to completely shift the costs of the "reproduction of labor power" to working people and break their fighting spirit.