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Shut your mouth and consider yourself lucky: The fight for a strippers’ union
January 10, 2024There’s a lot of debate on the topic of exploitation and sex work, but there’s a lot of overlap in how people are treated, no matter what job they occupy.
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Employees, not ‘independent contractors’: Labor Department cracks down on bosses’ misclassification abuse
January 10, 2024Misclassification costs workers $4 billion yearly.
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Seattle shutdown: Palestinian solidarity action paralyzes freeway for hours
January 9, 2024Many motorists got out of their cars to join the protest.
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In Juneau, Alaska, a carbon offset project that’s actually working
January 9, 2024Visiting Alaska is an emissions-heavy prospect. An innovative program has tourists ease that by helping buy heat pumps for locals.
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Biden opens re-election campaign calling Trump a threat to democracy
January 8, 2024Meanwhile, he dispatches Blinken to Mideast to quell disaster springing from his attack on the right of the Palestinian people to live.
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