National
The Democracy Initiative: A national campaign caught fire
August 28, 2014The CWA created the Democracy Initiative after seeing how a combination of political factors combined to thwart pro-democracy/pro-worker legislation and initiatives.
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U.S. schools more segregated than in 1954
August 28, 2014The new segregation, by class and income, harms students just as the old state-legalized segregation in the Solid South did.
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Ohio’s GOP governor ignores pleas of 3,000 fired Ormet workers
August 28, 2014The tattered sign standing at the entrance of Ormet's North Gate pretty much says it all. It pleads to Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio, for "some help" to save Ohio jobs.
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Catholic bishops back unions in Labor Day message
August 28, 2014The message draws both on Catholic social thought, which has endorsed unions for 125 years, and the more-recent strongly pro-worker statements of new Pope Francis I.
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Coalition tells president racial injustice underlies Michael Brown killing
August 27, 2014Michael Brown is only the latest in a long list of black men and boys who have died under eerily similar circumstances.
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