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Union leaders welcome Solis choice as labor secretary
December 19, 2008WASHINGTON (PAI)--Union leaders welcomed the choice of pro-worker Rep. Hilda Solis (D-Calif.) as Labor Secretary in the incoming Democratic Obama administration. If confirmed by the Senate, Solis would replace anti-worker GOP Bush Labor Secretary Elaine Chao....
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Biggest bill for working class people in 30 years
December 19, 2008CLEVELAND — The Employee Free Choice Act, aimed at eliminating barriers to workers seeking union representation, is key to any meaningful economic recovery, speakers told more than 100 labor and community activists at a forum here...
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Rural women working harder for the money, study finds
December 18, 2008DURHAM, N.H. — In rural America, 70 percent of married mothers with children under six work for pay, finds a new report spanning nearly 40 years of women’s employment trends. As men’s employment rates have dropped...
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Group demands Feds investigate Sheriff Joe Arpaio
December 18, 2008America's Voice, a group that favors comprehensive and humanitarian immigration reform, released a new Web video this week slamming infamous Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The video calls on the Justice Department to investigate Arpaio...
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Cuba celebrates UN Human Rights Day 60th anniversary
December 17, 2008If scant Internet postings and newspaper coverage indicate anything, the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Dec. 10 — designated each year as Human Rights Day — passed almost unnoticed in the...
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