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Wal-Mart makes deal with unions on Chicago stores
June 25, 2010Wal-Mart makes a deal with Chicago unions on wages, community development fund and PLAs -- Project-Labor Agreements -- after a six-year bruising battle.
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Panel debates how to make it in America again
June 25, 2010DETROIT - Two years after a paper mill shut down in Kimberly, Wis., 70 percent of the workers are still unemployed, commented Michael Bolton, from the Steelworkers.
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Big Coal: damaging communities from Appalachia to Colombia
June 24, 2010Kentuckians for the Commonwealth presented "The Struggle for Justice in the Coalfields of Central Appalachia and Colombia" at the U.S. Social Forum.
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Supreme Court ruling seen as threat to Bill of Rights
June 24, 2010A Supreme Court ruling may threaten rights of speech and association that had been considered firm since the failed McCarthy-era prosecution of Communist Party members.
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Social Forum: In jobs fight, America will find its soul again
June 24, 2010DETROIT - "This struggle for jobs can be the glue that holds us all together, that allows us to be more than we are - it allows 'us' to be 'we'." the AFL-CIO's Nick Unger told...
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