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Fire fighters organizing memorial for Arizona victims
July 8, 2013The Fire Fighters and their Arizona affiliate are organizing a memorial observance and soliciting donations for families of the 19 fire fighters from an elite squad who perished June 30.
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Davis-Bacon foes try new ploy: Change wage base
July 3, 2013Workers' foes are trying a new tack: Change the wage base, to make the wages as low as possible.
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Union leaders hail court dumping of DOMA
June 28, 2013WASHINGTON (PAI) - Union leaders hailed the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to throw out the Defense of Marriage Act, the anti-gay law a Republican-run Congress railroaded through, and which then-President Bill Clinton signed.
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Sanders, citing her anti-worker stand, is sole senator vs. Pritzker
June 27, 2013Hyatt fired housekeepers, replacing them with out-of-state minimum-wage temps. Unite Here has called a boycott of Hyatt.
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Teamsters voting on UPS pacts
June 14, 2013Teamsters are voting on new contracts with UPS. They cover 250,000 workers, making them the largest private-sector bargaining agreements in the U.S.
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Patriot Coal walkout on talks forces miners to consider strike
June 13, 2013TRIANGLE, Va. (PAI) - Workers at Patriot Coal Co., which is now undergoing bankruptcy reorganization, will have to prepare for a strike authorization vote after firm managers walked out of talks on a settlement on June...
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May jobless rate at 7.6 percent
June 10, 2013But the alleged business job creation rate is not enough to make a positive dent in the number of jobless, which was 11.8 million in May.
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Judge OKs Patriot Coal plan to renege on miners’ pensions
June 3, 2013A federal bankruptcy judge in St. Louis has left Patriot Coal's retirees - whom it inherited from Peabody Energy and Arch Coal - high and dry, and said Patriot could dump its union contracts, too.
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