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Chicago wage theft of Polish workers exposed

April 11, 2012 By John Wojcik

Zwirecki was sentenced to 12 months probation and ordered by Cook County Circuit Court Judge Dennis Porter to pay $60,804 in restitution and a $10,333 fine.

Santorum quits Republican contest

April 10, 2012 By John Wojcik

The announcement, coming after GOP kingpins were already rallying around Romney, has the effect of crushing opposition to the former Massachusetts governor from inside the Republican Party.

100,000 train to “take back the nation” from the 1%

April 10, 2012 By John Wojcik

More than 100,000 union members and activists from community groups are in "99% spring training sessions" all over the country this week gearing up, they say, to take back the nation from the 1%.

Global warming does not benefit plants: new study

April 10, 2012 By Dan Margolis

A study by researchers at Northern Arizona University shows that a somewhat rosy predictions about purported beneficial effects of global warming on plant life are likely not true.

Should union organizers get civil rights protections?

April 10, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Workers who are trying to unionize should be added to the groups of people protected by the nation's civil rights laws, two authors say. Currently those laws apply to women and minorities. Their idea, in the...