Labor
Union leaders applaud Supreme Court health care law ruling
June 29, 2015By and large, leaders applauded the ruling keeping the ACA's federal individual payments for health care insurance subsidies for users of health care exchanges, state or federal.
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AFL-CIO, ally protest deep cuts in House Labor-HHS money bill
June 26, 2015The legislation cuts employment and training funds, job services, job safety and health funding, kills health care quality evaluation and ACA funding of prevention programs.
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Right-wing GOP Illinois Gov. Rauner plans to force state workers to strike
June 25, 2015Rauner's tactic is the latest in a nationwide campaign by the right, its business backers and its political puppets to trash workers, cut wages, destroy pensions and kill unions.
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Unions and allies get support for gas tax hike for highway-mass transit funding
June 24, 2015The legislation is important both for jobs creation and to repair and replace the nation's crumbling infrastructure and to repair, replace and upgrade bus and subway systems.
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Picking peas should bring a better life
June 19, 2015We're doing it so that our children can leave the fields and move forward. I want to give them a better life.
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