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Striking Walmart workers’ caravan heads for firm’s headquarters, annual meeting
May 31, 2013A group of more than 100 Walmart workers from stores in Northern California, Miami, Boston, Denver and elsewhere started an extended strike on Memorial Day against the retail mega-monster.
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Today in labor history: Rosie the Riveter dies at 77
May 31, 2013Rose Will Monroe, who became famous as "Rosie the Riveter," died on May 31, 1997. During World War II, Monroe went to work in the aircraft industry as a riveter making parts for military airplanes.
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Today in labor history: Ford goes to revolutionary Russia
May 30, 2013On May 30, 1929, the Ford Motor Company signed a technical assistance contract to produce cars in the newly industrializing Soviet Union.
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Protesters to Obama: “400,000, not one more deportation”
May 30, 2013CHICAGO - Twelve undocumented Chicagoans were arrested May 29 as they blocked rush hour traffic to demand that President Obama stop deportations.
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Afghanistan: Is it really the end game?
May 30, 2013There is nothing that better sums up the utter failure of America's longest war than getting ambushed as you are trying to get the hell out of the county.
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