Labor
Obama uses Pullman monument dedication to push workers’ rights
February 23, 2015"Dignity and opportunity aren't just gifts to be handed down by a generous government or by a generous employer. They are rights."
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Walmart’s raise for workers “proof collective action works”
February 20, 2015Walmart announced today it was giving its lowest-wage workers a raise to at least $9 an hour by April and $10 an hour by 2016.
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Update: El Super boycott
February 20, 2015El Super market workers, along with 100 community organizations, endorse the call to boycott El Super.
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GOP House panel OK’s partisan rewrite of education law
February 20, 2015"In reality, it would rob poor and struggling students of the resources, supports, and funding they need to succeed."
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A first contract for Brooklyn Cablevision employees
February 19, 2015"Many of us never thought we'd see this night come. Many workers had given up hope. But we stuck together through thick and thin."
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