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U.K.: Performers condemn woes facing the entertainment arts
May 21, 2014Stage and screen performers face funding cuts to the arts, chronic low pay and the dearth of black and ethnic minority representation.
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Unity was their cry: Fast food workers go global
May 20, 2014Tattooed teenagers joined with their sign-carrying elders as part of the global fast food workers' strike. Like an idea whose time has come, there was no holding back this group.
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SEIU Attorney: Supreme Court case bigger threat than progressives realize
May 19, 2014A recently argued U.S. Supreme Court case, pushed on the justices by the anti-worker National Right to Work Committee, is a big threat to unions.
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America’s top hospital gets failing grade in treatment of its workers
May 16, 2014Hospital workers were on the march in the pouring rain earlier this month at John Hopkins Hospital saying: "America's Number One Hospital - Keeping Workers in Poverty."
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Turkish unions, charging “murders,” stage national strike over mine disaster
May 16, 2014"The horrific news coming from the coal mine near Soma is a punch in the gut for every coal miner everywhere in the world."
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