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Floridians rally for free, fair elections
March 14, 2013Orlando residents rallied March 5 --the first day of the 2013 Florida legislative session - to demand "true election reform" that would make voting "free, fair and accessible to all."
Read moreGraduate workers at UIC rally
March 14, 2013The Graduate Employees Organization at the University of Illinois at Chicago held a rally titled "Don't Make Us Strike" to protest the stalling of their negotiations for a contract by the administration.
Read more19 arrested in attempt to stop school closings
March 8, 2013The mood was boisterous and upbeat as some 2,000 demonstrators massed outside Philadelphia School District headquarters in an attempt to stop threatened closing of nearly 30 public schools.
Read moreUnions go public with intent to overhaul their own structure
March 8, 2013The AFL-CIO will probe new ways of organizing itself and the broader labor movement and its allies to meet what it says are the changing times.
Read moreTrumka: AFL-CIO to undergo wide-scale revamp
February 28, 2013The revamp will meet the conditions of changing workplaces, extend labor's reach, and shift its emphasis within the federation to more inter-union and regional cooperation.
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