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UAW: Chrysler pact gradually eliminates two-tier wages

September 23, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

A tentative contract features gradual elimination of the system that the Detroit 3 automakers instituted after hitting the financial rocks during the Great Recession.

Job fatalities rise in construction, oil, and gas

September 23, 2015 By PAI

"Far too many people are still killed on the job -- 13 workers every day taken from their families tragically and unnecessarily."

Unions lobby lawmakers to prevent government shutdown

September 23, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

With another government shutdown looming, federal workers' unions are advising their members on how to cope with a sudden halt to their paychecks.

At Legislative Conference, jobs for all is the priority

September 21, 2015 By Margaret Baldridge

The workshop on full employment at the 45th Annual Legislative Conference of the CBCF was the most important one of all.

Radical roots of the great grape strike

September 21, 2015 By David Bacon

Fifty years ago, the great grape strike started in Delano, when Filipino pickers walked out of the fields on September 8, 1965.