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GOP: No bootstraps for you, baby!
September 24, 2015The whole motley GOP crew is determined to do whatever it takes to deny workers and their children economic mobility.
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LCLAA report advocates Latino organizing, workers centers
September 24, 2015Labor's Council for Latin American Advancement is advocating "strategic investment" in organizing Latinos and more use and promotion of workers' centers.
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Alaska hotel workers hang tough with Sheraton, Hilton boycotts
September 24, 2015For Alaskan hotel workers, instead of battling weather and wilderness, they have been locked in a lengthy campaign for decent wages.
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Pope Francis at White House: Fight climate change, aid immigrants
September 24, 2015Speaking from a White House porch to a huge, ecstatic, cheering crowd, Francis did not mince words in his rebuke of climate change deniers.
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Today in history: An era ends in Eastern Europe
September 24, 2015On this date in 1990,the Supreme Soviet gave approval to switch to a free market economy, the signal for the GDR to leave the now moribund Warsaw Pact.
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