worker rights
Striking workers assail Red Cross “union-avoidance plan”
May 31, 2012It tears Red Cross workers up to not be doing the jobs they love. But at some point, they have to protect their own lives and livelihoods too.
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NLRB official orders rerun recognition vote at Target store
May 30, 2012Saying Target illegally threatened to close its store if workers won a vote, a judge ordered a rerun election at the 268-worker store.
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Steelworkers remember martyrs, fight for living
May 29, 2012The Republic Steel mill in south Chicago is sacred ground for the American labor movement.
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Ten dead, a hundred injured in bloodstained Chicago field
May 25, 2012They were on strike but the strike was just a week old so people were not yet in the direst of straights.
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Coalition asks members to lobby for Paycheck Fairness Act
May 24, 2012The drive kicked off when Senate Democrats announced that Senate leaders promised them a vote on the legislation.
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