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AFL-CIO demands end to anti-gay job discrimination
September 13, 2013LOS ANGELES - At its 2013 convention here Sept. 11 the AFL-CIO passed a strongly worded resolution calling for an end to on-the-job discrimination against gay people.
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Saul Landau told truth about Cuba
September 13, 2013Saul Landau - reporter, author of 14 books, filmmaker (45 of them), poet, college professor, and determined foe of U.S. assaults on Cuba - died Sept. 9 in Alameda, Calif., at the age of 77.
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Robin Hood Tax protests coming to NYC on Sept. 17
September 13, 2013Robin Hood and his merry men and women are demanding a tax on the 1 percent next week on the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street.
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UAW: Majority at Tennessee VW plant sign union cards
September 13, 2013NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A majority of workers at Volkswagen's assembly plant in Tennessee have signed cards favoring the union's representation in creating a German-style works council at the plant, a top United Auto Workers official...
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Labor Secretary Perez vows to grow middle class, “so help me God”
September 13, 2013LOS ANGELES (PAI)-New Labor Secretary Tom Perez virtually threw away his script at the AFL-CIO Convention here, with a stem-winder speech, pledging worker protections, promising labor and the administration would do it together and with several...
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