Labor
Ohio voters make progressive shift
November 25, 2013Voters in Cincinnati, Ohio, by huge margin, turned down a tea party initiative that would've wiped out public worker's pensions in that city.
Read moreToday in labor history: First-ever U.S. teacher walkout
November 25, 2013The "strike for better schools" was intended to reform the way the schools were administered and operated, and also how workers there were treated.
Read moreTexas strikers picket Walmart in Black Friday warm-up
November 25, 2013Activists and Walmart employees joined together to stage a protest at the Walmart Supercenter in Lancaster, a suburb of Dallas, Nov. 20.
Read moreWorkers plan nationwide strikes against “bully” Walmart
November 22, 2013"Walmart is just a bully, and people across the country are starting to see the real Walmart, that's why I continue to stand up, because the time for change is now."
Read moreToday in labor history: Jack London, writer, socialist, dies at 40
November 22, 2013Best known to U.S. readers as the author of Call of the Wild, London also wrote several powerful works dealing with workers, capitalism and socialism - including his famous dystopian novel The Iron Heel.
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