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Organizers in Colombia’s flower industry: These roses have thorns!
October 16, 2014For workers in Colombia, providing bouquets for vases has meant increasing hours with falling pay, growing health problems, and human rights violations.
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GOP to America: “Be very, very afraid this Halloween!”
October 16, 2014Republicans have adopted a Halloween-themed campaign strategy that they hope will incite voters to run screaming from Democrats.
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Female Nobel winners are rare: One was a British communist
October 16, 2014Malala Yousafzai, the 17-year-old Pakistani female education activist, shot but never silenced by the Taliban, became the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
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Nurses: Ebola threat requires emergency presidential action
October 16, 2014With concern escalating bout the threat of a wider Ebola outbreak, National Nurses United today called on Obama to "invoke his executive authority."
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Today in Labor History: Clayton Antitrust Act signed
October 15, 2014The Act established that unions are not conspiracies under the law and freed them to legally strike, picket and boycott employers.
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