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MI unions seek bargaining rights amendment
March 26, 2012"Working families who built Michigan's middle class now want to rebuild it," Teamsters President James Hoffa said.
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‘Arab Spring’ unions get top rights award
March 26, 2012Two union federations that have been leaders in the "Arab Spring," in Tunisia and Bahrain, received the AFL-CIO's top human rights award.
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Labor pushes for highway-mass transit bill, GOP blocks
March 23, 2012The bill would approve highway and mass transit construction money for the next two years, creating tens of thousands of jobs. And civil engineers say there are now thousands of structurally deficient or functionally obsolete bridges.
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Workers across the country slam Verizon for refusing to talk
March 23, 2012Members of the Communications Workers of America, other unions and student and community allies protested outside of a Verizon wireless store.
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Senate’s phony “JOBS Act” not about jobs, deregulates Wall Street
March 23, 2012AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka came out with a blistering statement on the Senate's passage of the so-called "JOBS Act."
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