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EDITORIAL: Rogue bankers = homelessness

The stock market continues to skyrocket, corporate profits are rising at a record-setting pace and mortgage foreclosures surged 90 percent in May compared to a year ago. The rich are getting filthier and working families are...

EDITORIAL: Human rights are inalienable

The reopening of Senate floor debate on the “Grand Bargain” immigration bill, S 1348, reflects, among many things, the increasing significance of migrating labor in global economics and politics. Like global warming, it cannot be ignored...

This Week In Labor

LGBT unionists fighting on several fronts Pride at Work, an AFL-CIO affiliate, is a group of labor union activists who seek full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) workers in their workplaces and their...

WOLRD NOTES

Brazil: Landless workers weigh in on biofuels The Fifth Congress of Brazil’s Rural Workers Without Land, the MST, ended June 14 with a march through Brasilia protesting transnational land grabs and mining privatization. President Luiz Inacio...