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GOP guest worker (zombie bill) lives on
July 3, 2018The Republican effort to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill went down in flames for the second time in a month.
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Movement gears up to stop Trump Supreme Court pick
July 3, 2018"If Trump puts up an anti-choice, anti-collective bargaining, anti-worker nominee, we’re going to have to use whatever mechanism we have to up the volume level.”
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The other 4th of July: Slavery’s defeat was second American Revolution
July 3, 2018The stakes of the second American Revolution were as great as those of 1776. When Grant’s troops marched into Vicksburg, they broke the back of slavery.
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Brazil: Right-wing government hits workers, workers hit back
July 2, 2018In Brazil, the far-right-wing government of President Michel Temer had a victory over the country’s workers and unions last week, but the fighting spirit of the Brazilian working class seems to be undaunted.
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Corporate wage theft is on the rise
July 2, 2018Grand Theft Paycheck, a landmark new study from Good Jobs First and the Jobs with Justice Education Fund, examines over 1,200 lawsuits against wage theft that groups of workers have won since 2000. Employers in these...
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