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Biggest bill for working class people in 30 years
December 19, 2008CLEVELAND — The Employee Free Choice Act, aimed at eliminating barriers to workers seeking union representation, is key to any meaningful economic recovery, speakers told more than 100 labor and community activists at a forum here...
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Rural women working harder for the money, study finds
December 18, 2008DURHAM, N.H. — In rural America, 70 percent of married mothers with children under six work for pay, finds a new report spanning nearly 40 years of women’s employment trends. As men’s employment rates have dropped...
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End military recruitment in our public schools
December 18, 2008An Open Letter to President-elect Obama One day, when we still lived in Tijuana, Mexico, and my son was only 13 years old, a Marine recruiter told him that if my son enlisted someday he could...
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Group demands Feds investigate Sheriff Joe Arpaio
December 18, 2008America's Voice, a group that favors comprehensive and humanitarian immigration reform, released a new Web video this week slamming infamous Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The video calls on the Justice Department to investigate Arpaio...
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End the auto crisis: Public ownership to save jobs and environment
December 18, 2008The following is a statement of the Communist Party USA Union auto workers are fighting for their lives. For us the fight to defend the United Auto Workers union (UAW) and its members is immediate. It...
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