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Top AFL-CIO staffer says Johnson’s Brexit pact bad for U.K. and U.S. workers
October 21, 2019The corporate interests that funded the Brexit campaign, plus Johnson, want to follow Brexit with a NAFTA-like “free trade” pact between Britain and Trump.
Read moreChicago school teachers, staff, kids and parents continue their strike
October 18, 2019The strike of over 30,000 teachers and support staff in the nation's third-largest school system entered its second day here Friday.
Read moreChicago teachers, support staff strike
October 17, 2019Despite ten months of bargaining, the sides remain far apart on restoring staffing levels decimated over the past few decades.
Read moreKaiser mental health clinicians step up their fight for patient care
October 17, 2019Kaiser Permanente’s mental health clinicians throughout California are taking their years-long struggle to assure adequate care for their patients to a new level this week.
Read moreConservative law firm pushes for massive voter purge in Wisconsin
October 16, 2019More than a quarter-million voters in Wisconsin identified as having moved could be made ineligible to vote before next year’s presidential primary election.
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