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Service Employees plan massive response to GOP’s immigrant bashing
June 20, 2013"If they thought 2012 was bad" in terms of the tide of Latino votes against the GOP, "wait 'till 2014 and 2016."
Read moreToday in labor history: The 1937 “Women’s Day Massacre”
June 19, 2013On June 19, 1937, police in Youngstown, Ohio, used tear gas on women and children, including at least one infant in his mother's arms, during the historic strike at Republic Steel.
Read moreWalker’s anti-union law heads for new test in court
June 19, 2013Here we go again in Wisconsin: Right-wing Gov. Scott Walker's anti-union law is headed for another test in the state's Supreme Court.
Read moreLabor spells out what “must” be in immigration bill
June 19, 2013AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has laid down, in detail, what the federation wants - and doesn't want - in the legislation.
Read moreColorado fires blaze on as workers rush to fight them
June 18, 2013The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service an out of money to pay for firefighting equipment this year, after Congress only provided half of the total sum of money it has cost to fight wildfires so...
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