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Labor’s house opens door wide: Let’s work together
September 10, 2013Envisioning a common cause coalition powerful enough to defeat the stranglehold of "entrenched corporate interests," Richard Trumka announced an agenda that would include many democratic goals.
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“All of life”: Roque Dalton, poet and revolutionary
September 10, 2013Dalton has long been recognized as one of the finest poets of the 20th century in Latin America..But Dalton was not just a poet: he was a revolutionary poet.
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Social media and labor: a perfect, and necessary, match
September 10, 2013The union members of tomorrow are not going to be reached in the same manner as their predecessors. Twenty-five percent of U.S. voters are no longer watching television
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AFL-CIO blasts big business prison profiteers
September 10, 2013The nation's prison population exploded from 500,000 to 2.2 million between 1980 and 2011, in the decades since the for-profit business of incarceration was born.
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Ethiopian immigrant Tefere Gebre shakes up labor organizing
September 10, 2013Gebre's first attempt at union organizing in Orange County was a smashing success. He successfully signed up 400 workers who toiled as sorters of trash.
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