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Today in labor history: Atlanta workers engage in sit-down strike
November 18, 2014Workers at the General Motors plant in Atlanta, Georgia participated in a sit-down strike, which was part of a greater ongoing wave of labor organizing during the 1930s.
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Ferguson organizers hold training for peaceful protests
November 17, 2014Organizers of protests planned in Ferguson are determined to see that it's peaceful. They will train people to ensure it stays that way.
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Today in labor history: Official claims “Robin Hood” was communist plot
November 13, 2014The episode seems silly in retrospect. What was not so silly, however, was the political repression Communists faced.
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Louise Koszalka dies at 100
November 12, 2014Louise (Jones) Ferragut Koszalka, May 12, 1914, to Oct. 31, 2014, passed away peacefully at home with her family.
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Walmart workers react to New York Times expose on understaffing
November 12, 2014In response to the New York Times story today, Walmart workers are again calling for full-time hours and better scheduling.
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Today in labor history: Socialist denied seat in Congress
November 10, 2014On this day in 1919 Victor Berger, the first socialist elected to the U.S. Congress was denied his seat.
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Mail-in, provisional ballots upset Calif. Republican “upset”
November 10, 2014Republicans badly wanted to win this historically red district, famous as the home for many retired military.
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Seismic shift seen in Florida Cuban American vote
November 10, 2014Despite winning the gubernatorial race in Florida last week, exit polling shows that Gov. Rick Scott lost Cuban-Americans to his Democratic opponent, 50 to 46 percent.
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