Labor
‘Health care or food?’
November 21, 2009"The company wants to make us pay $350 a month for our family health care; for me that would mean a 10 percent wage cut."
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10 years after the ‘Battle in Seattle’
November 20, 2009SEATTLE (PAI)—Ten years ago on Nov. 30, 1999, 50,000 people protested a meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle.
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AFL-CIO head denounces Honduras elections
November 18, 2009AFL-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.
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NAACP, labor demand bold action on jobs
November 17, 2009WASHINGTON - 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...
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Workers in U.S. most dangerous industry demand protection
November 16, 2009He'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.
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