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Federal lawmakers join state reps in attack on public workers
April 1, 2013Right-wing federal lawmaker are backing up state government attacks on state and local workers' pensions through a measure that, if passed, would make the pensions virtually unaffordable.
Read moreToday in women’s history: National Women’s Party protests workplace discrimination
March 28, 2013On this day in 1931, governors of Florida, Virginia, New Mexico and a few other states rejected proposals from the Cotton-Textile Institute to forbid women from working factory night shifts.
Read moreWhat I learned from the Immokalee workers
March 28, 2013Earlier this month I marched for three days with Florida's Immokalee farmworkers and their supporters.
Read moreU.S. and British transport workers form alliance
March 27, 2013They have agreed to cooperate on safety issues; launch joint campaigns targeting employers in-common; and advance a strategy promoting the right of workers to organize unions and bargain.
Read moreArizonans fight to keep their mail coming (with video)
March 27, 2013Hundreds of passing drivers honked in solidarity with 200 postal workers and community supporters' who rallied here Sunday afternoon to "save the Postal Service."
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