Labor
Non-union workers strike California hotel
August 17, 2010In a first for their industry, workers at a non-union hotel went out on a one-day strike Aug. 9 to protest years of being denied the right to take breaks.
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Warehouse workers suffer while Wal-Mart rakes in cash
August 17, 2010Tory Moore, from Kankakee, Ill., worked as a temp warehouse worker for six years before he was fired in December 2009, after standing up for his rights.
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Laborers to rejoin AFL-CIO
August 16, 2010The Change To Win federation will lose yet another member on Oct. 1, when the Laborers rejoin the AFL-CIO - but in a sense, they never really left.
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“Fun work experience” turns to nightmare at liquor superstore
August 16, 2010"Leading alcoholic beverage-lifestyle" superstore BevMo! offers job-seekers "fun, fast-paced and constantly changing work experiences" - but workers say the reality is different.
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Social Security at 75 is under attack, again
August 16, 2010"There is no tragedy in growing old, but there is tragedy in growing old without means of support,"President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said in 1934.
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