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Why 2016 is all about raising pay
June 15, 2015How has the middle class dissolved and childhood poverty risen while we continue to create more millionaires and billionaires?
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It’s always baseball season for Steelworkers at Louisville Slugger
June 12, 2015The workers produce, on average, 3,200 bats each day for souvenirs and retail sale and about 300 bats per day for major league baseball players.
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Delta baggage handler files suit over retaliatory firing
June 12, 2015Hedges has been active in trying to organize a union among ground workers at Delta and in 15Now, a movement to raise wages among airport workers to $15 an hour.
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Retired people add their voices to anti-Rauner upsurge
June 12, 2015Some media and folks with cameras were threatened; told that they were violating the Homeland Security Act. Really.
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Retaliation at Illinois factory ignites labor alliance
June 11, 2015Members of Chicago Jobs with Justice as well as Jobs to Move America coalesced in downtown Chicago to declare their support for a worker fired in retaliation for whistleblowing.
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