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Scabs paid to break British Airways strike

March 31, 2010 By Morning Star

Striking British Airway workers' union leaders have slated the airline's bosses for blowing millions of pounds on exorbitant wages and expenses for scabs attempting to break the cabin crew strike.

Obama makes pro-labor recess appointments

March 29, 2010 By John Wojcik

President Obama is bypassing Republican obstructionists in the Senate this week and naming 15 people to administration positions, which the GOP has blocked for an average of 214 days.

Labor takes the stage in immigration reform fight

March 23, 2010 By Dan Margolis

Leaders of the AFL-CIO and Change to Win unions took part in the enormous March 21 immigration reform rally in Washington, arguing that fairer treatment of immigrant workers is essential to the struggle for all workers'...

Mexican government on full-blast offensive against workers

March 17, 2010 By Emile Schepers

There is a strong, yet indirect, link to the Mexican government's attack on workers and current drug-related violence, analsyt Emile Schepers points out.

While golfers play, locked out workers picket

March 16, 2010 By Marilyn Bechtel

PLEASANTON, Calif. - Bright spring grass, gentle breezes, a tree-lined country road. It should have been an idyllic setting for the golfers fanning out across the fairways at Castlewood Country Club on a sunny Sunday morning....