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Chocolate shakeup: Student guest workers walk out at Hershey’s plant
August 19, 2011Students say the strike will continue until Hershey's ends the exploitation of student guest workers and gives living wage local jobs to Pennsylvania's workers.
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Rally tells Sen. Feinstein: Fight for Social Security
August 19, 2011They came from all over northern California - by bus, by train, by carpool - to deliver a powerful message to Senator Dianne Feinstein: Stand up and be a champion for Social Security!
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In pilot project, AFL-CIO organizes Minnesota jobless workers
August 19, 2011The AFL-CIO, in a pilot project in the Twin Cities and in six other areas, is trying to bring some hope back - along with practical help.
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In UK riots, Conservative Party rewriting doesn’t wash
August 19, 2011Iain Duncan Smith told BBC's Panorama that our recent riots were nothing to do with unemployment.
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Pressure grows on sugar company to end lockout
August 18, 2011The East Grand Forks, Minn., city council voted unanimously to send a letter urging American Crystal Sugar to return to negotiations with its locked-out workers.
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