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Interfaith group urges vigils for Walmart supply chain workers
December 20, 2012The same weekend as U.S. Walmart workers went on a Black Friday strike 112 garment workers were killed in a fire in Bangladesh.
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“Unfinished Business”: Unique exhibit presents domestic workers’ stories
December 20, 2012She needed a notebook more than food. It would save her sanity and soul.
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Today in labor history: 2005 New York transit workers strike
December 20, 2012On December 20, 2005, thousands of workers began what was to be a three-day strike of the New York City transit system over retirement, pension and wage issues.
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GOP Grinches trying to steal Christmas
December 20, 2012"Anyone who wants to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid benefits to finance tax giveaways for the rich must have a heart two sizes too small."
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Time to repeal Taft-Hartley
December 19, 2012It is one of those ironies of history that on December 10, 1948 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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