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Teachers roar: We didn’t cause the budget crisis!

March 16, 2011

Thousands of Texans converged and converged again for some of the biggest labor actions in decades.

Marin County pickets and honks for the working class

March 16, 2011 By Henry Millstein

Residents of Marin County joined a nationwide outpouring of protest against the Republican Party's anti-worker policies.

“States’ rights” Republicans killing democracy, state by state

March 15, 2011 By John Wojcik

Major assaults on democracy are underway on the local level in dozens of states.

NFL lockout is about stripping workers rights

March 15, 2011 By Pepe Lozano

Despite weeks, if not months, of labor negotiations between NFL owners and players, the nation's most popular sport could see its first shutdown in 24 years.

Richard Trumka, 10,000 union members flood Maryland State Capitol

March 15, 2011 By Jordan Farrar

More than 10,000 union members and supporters swarmed the State Capitol in here to protest proposed changes to teacher's pensions and to respond to the recent assault on unions in Wisconsin.