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Extend jobless benefits!
Feb08
Without this extension millions of unemployed workers and families will be dropped from the rolls.
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Melanie Shouse, health care activist, dies at 41
Feb04
ST. LOUIS -- Melanie Shouse was 37 when she first felt the lump.
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Americans get fired for nothing
Feb04
Book Review: "Can They Do That? Retaking Our Fundamental Rights in the Workplace"
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Blackwater swamp keeps on bubbling
Feb02
The Justice Department has begun a criminal fraud investigation of the company, its employees face criminal charges, but it keeps doing its dirty work under a tangle of names.

Machinists stop Pratt & Whitney from moving jobs
EAST HARTFORD, Conn. - Emotions ran high as union leaders announced details of a court victory blocking P&W from moving work and equipment affecting 1,000 jobs.
Saints, sinners and the NFL
As most Americans were racing down to the bottom of their Guacamole dip and watching the largest sporting event of the year, another Super-Bowl-related race to the bottom went unnoticed.

Bush officials orchestrated company’s attacks on Indian “guest workers”
Bush administration agencies instructed a major corporation on how to harass and deport hundreds of Indian "guest workers" who were protesting their working conditions, newly released documents show.
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We need to combat workplace violence
Consider this: Every year, almost two million American men and women are the victims of violent crime at their workplaces.
How the Greensboro sit-in ignited a social revolution
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Afghanistan: Is it all about terrorism?
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