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Naugatuck, Conn. students keep Black Lives Matter fight going
February 16, 2021What do the police killing of George Floyd and Naugatuck, Conn., have in common? Plenty.
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Bill Davis—beloved labor and peace activist, Communist leader—lost to COVID
February 16, 2021Bill Davis, 1942-2021.
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Workers press Biden to fight for $15 minimum wage
February 16, 2021Democrats have long promised an increase—support for a $15 minimum wage was including in the party’s 2016 political platform—but haven’t delivered.
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Child slavery lawsuit targets Hershey, Nestlé, Mars and other chocolate giants
February 16, 2021Child labor is a major and ongoing problem for cocoa production in West Africa. NORC at the University of Chicago found that 1.56 million children were harvesting cocoa in Cote D'Ivoire and Ghana during the 2018...
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Overcoming company hurdles, 6,000 Amazon workers start union recognition vote
February 16, 2021If workers here go union, it will mark a double breakthrough for organized labor in two notoriously hostile environments: Amazon and Alabama.
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