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Labor-led alliance pressures Wal-Mart for change
September 5, 2009Unveiling a new "American values agenda" this week, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union launched a new coalition of labor unions, worker advocacy groups, environmental groups, faith-based communities and consumer protection organizations to "hold Wal-Mart...
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LETTERS, September 5, 2009
September 5, 2009Way ahead of tea-baggers We have to fight Funny story Role of the left
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‘Young workers: A lost decade’
September 4, 2009Something bad happened in the past 10 years to young workers in this country: Since 1999, more of them now have lower-paying jobs, if they can get a job at all; health care is a rare...
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Obama to address AFL-CIO convention
September 4, 2009President Obama will speak at the AFL-CIO Convention in Pittsburgh on Sept. 15, the White House announced yesterday. The speech will once again dramatize the new relationship between the labor movement and the Oval Office, following...
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Missouri state capital rallies for health care reform
September 3, 2009JEFFERSON CITY, MO – “I was too expensive, so they got rid of me,” Robert Green told hundreds of rural Missourians who rallied for health care reform here on the Capital steps September 2.
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