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Service Employees back Obama

November 18, 2011 By Press Associates

The Service Employees became the third big union - and the second within Change To Win - to endorse Democratic President Barack Obama for re-election.

Postal unions blast two “rescue” bills

November 18, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

Postal workers are blasting both Postal Service "rescue" bills as deeply flawed legislation that would come close to killing the Postal Service.

Black labor leaders: Alabama’s immigration fight ground zero for civil rights

November 18, 2011 By Pepe Lozano

African American, civil rights and labor leaders visited Birmingham this week to see first hand how the state's new anti-immigrant law is impacting Latinos.

University faculty to chancellor: “We are not your ATM!”

November 18, 2011 By Marilyn Bechtel

In California State University faculty's first such action since collective bargaining began almost 30 years ago, two of the system's 23 campuses were idled in a one-day strike Nov. 17.

Across the nation, hundreds of thousands join Occupy movement

November 18, 2011 By Gabe Falsetta

If there was ever any illusion that the mayor's move would kill the movement, it evaporated at Foley Square.