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Revive long-term unemployment benefits now

April 8, 2014 By Mike Hall

The Senate passed a bill reviving the program for long-term jobless workers. House leaders have said they won't take up the Senate bill, and Congress is due to leave town for a two-week recess.

Kentuckians blast McConnell for opposing minimum wage hike

April 4, 2014 By John Bachtell

"Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) has voted against every minimum wage increase since he's been in the U.S. Senate, but he's voted for his own raise and now he's worth $25 million."

GOP goes after NLRB yet again

April 3, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

In yet another right-wing attack on the NLRB, top Republicans unveiled legislation to lengthen union recognition election campaigns.

Virginia lawmaker uses “tar baby” slur to attack Obamacare

March 21, 2014 By Art Cook

Southside Virginia has been in the news because of a catastrophic coal ash spill into the Dan River, and now, racist comments by a legislator comparing Obamacare to tar babies.

Nationwide spring bus tours to culminate in marches on Washington

March 21, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

The campaigns, for legalizing undocumented people and for raising the minimum wage, show labor's determination to get out in the streets and make unionists' voices heard.