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Labor
Today in labor history: Title IX enacted
June 23, 2014Title IX prohibits federally funded educational institutions from discriminating against students or employees based on sex.
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Labor
Seattle makes history: Council OKs $15 minimum wage
June 3, 2014Fast food workers at the council meeting reportedly cried after the vote.
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Labor
St. Louis workers rally to support fired Jimmy John’s employee
June 3, 2014Rasheen Aldridge, an organizer with Show Me $15, has been fired because of his role as a protest organizer.
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U.S.
Civil rights radical Yuri Kochiyama dies at age 93
June 2, 2014Yuri Kochiyama died June 1 in Berkeley, Calif., at age 93. The lifelong champion of civil rights catapulted to national attention under tragic circumstances.
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U.S.
Seattle City Council panel OKs $15 an hour minimum wage
May 31, 2014An ordinance that gradually increases the minimum wage in Seattle to $15 an hour was approved Thursday by a City Council committee, setting up a full council vote next week.
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U.S.
High point of the week: House votes to end medical pot crackdowns
May 30, 2014The somewhat surprising 219-189 vote came as the House debated a bill funding the Justice Department's budget. The measure now heads to the Democratic Senate.
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Labor
Today in labor history: Tule Lake internment camp opens
May 27, 2014Tule Lake was the largest and most conflict-ridden of the ten War Relocation Authority camps used to carry out the government's system of exclusion and detention of persons of Japanese descent.
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U.S.
Immigration debate begins in Senate as calls to end deportations grow
June 12, 2013President Obama insisted the "moment is now" to give 11 million immigrants in the U.S. without documents a chance at citizenship.
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