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10 years after the ‘Battle in Seattle’

November 20, 2009 By Don McIntosh

SEATTLE (PAI)—Ten years ago on Nov. 30, 1999, 50,000 people protested a meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle.

AFL-CIO head denounces Honduras elections

November 18, 2009 By Emile Schepers

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has weighed in on the planned November 29 elections in Honduras, with an open letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

NAACP, labor demand bold action on jobs

November 17, 2009 By John Wojcik

WASHINGTON - The nation's top labor, civil rights and community leaders joined forces here today and put forward a bold program they say is needed to create millions of new jobs and to lift the economy...

Workers in U.S. most dangerous industry demand protection

November 16, 2009 By Dan Margolis

He's had a gun put up to his head during a robbery. He's been assaulted with a crowbar, and had every window in his car broken. He's had a jagged beer bottle shoved into his neck.

Strike at Illinois campus demands protection of tuition waivers

November 16, 2009 By Damien Mathew

Update: GEO picketing was suspended at 1:00 CST on the 17th, following a bargaining session with the administration in which tuition waivers were secured.