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Black Friday at Walmart: Poverty wages keep prices low
December 8, 2014As Black Friday marked the start of this year's shopping season, unionists reflected on what they would get workers this year if they could get them anything in the world.
Read moreMiners’ families hope for justice at coming trial
December 8, 2014The disaster and the resulting deaths shocked the mining communities of Raleigh and Boone Counties and left the dead miners' families grieving.
Read moreFast food workers walk off the job in 190 cities
December 5, 2014Fast food workers walked off the job from one end of the country to the other today, with police arresting hundreds of workers engaging in civil disobedience.
Read moreJobless rate unchanged in Nov., businesses say they created 321K jobs
December 5, 2014The number of unemployed actually rose by 115,000 in November, to 9.11 million, BLS said. But an equal number of workers found jobs, so the rate stayed unchanged.
Read moreCalifornia low wage workers on the move
December 5, 2014Some 200 workers, labor and community supporters gathered in the heart of the largely Latino Fruitvale neighborhood Dec. 4.
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