Labor
Lou Dobbs joins immigration hypocrite list
October 13, 2010The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute recently found that Lou Dobbs, who fulminated nightly on CNN against "the illegal aliens" taking over the country, has relied for years on undocumented labor for the upkeep of...
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Labor takes on racism in GOP “Pledge”
October 12, 2010The Republican Party's platform for the mid-term elections, its "Pledge to America," has a sharply racist edge.
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Anti-union groups use election to push far-right agenda
October 12, 2010The same far-right anti-union groups that blocked the Employee Free Choice Act and opposed hiking the minimum wage are pouring more than $400 million into the 2010 mid-term elections.
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One Nation coalition to continue beyond the Nov. 2 elections
October 11, 2010The One Nation coalition will try to stay together to work on each other's causes after the Nov. 2 election, a top union participant says.
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Undocumented immigration in international perspective
October 11, 2010There are at least 214 million people living outside their countries of origin, either as naturalized citizens, legal noncitizens, temporary workers or undocumented. At least 100 million of these are in the labor force.
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