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Minor league baseball umpires agree on new labor deal
December 2, 2011Minor League umpires are ready to play ball after its more than 200 members voted to approve a new labor agreement with Minor League Baseball.
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Jobless enter Capitol, demand benefits extension
December 1, 2011Two hundred unemployed workers marched into the halls of Congress yesterday and served their lawmakers with 75,000 signatures on petitions demanding extension of unemployment benefits for the six million Americans about to lose them.
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Right wing push to destroy labor board comes to a head
December 1, 2011A right-wing scheme to incapacitate the National Labor Relations Board was derailed in the nation's capital this week.
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UK: 2 million strike to save their pensions
December 1, 2011Tory attempts to belittle public-sector industrial action rang pathetically hollow.
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Edward Elkind, lifelong peace activist, dies
December 1, 2011Edward H. Elkind, 81, a Marxist activist and teacher who also worked as a computer programmer and advocated such causes as D.C. home rule, rent control, public housing and public health clinics, died Oct. 8.
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