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Home care workers file for largest union election in Minnesota history

July 17, 2014 By Barb Kucera

Pay is so low that many caregivers qualify for food stamps, don’t get paid sick leave or health or retirement benefits.

Official February unemployment at 6.7 percent

March 10, 2014 By PAI

U.S. Unemployment rose by 0.1 percent in February, to 6.7 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said.

GOP-run Missouri House moving fast on anti-worker agenda

March 4, 2014 By Tim Rowden

Unionists mobilized against anti-worker schemes, delivering more than 6,850 handwritten and individual letters to state House Speaker Tim Jones demanding he reject so-called Right to Work legislation.

Government workers: “Raise our pay 4 percent, not 1 percent!”

February 28, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

A 4 percent hike would start to make up for the three years of federal pay freezes and increased pension contributions-without increased future pension payouts-that Congress imposed on federal workers.

Labor launches campaign to raise wages across America

February 18, 2014 By John Wojcik

We are declaring here and now that the labor movement is going to focus like a laser beam on raising wages for all American workers, union and non-union," AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told reporters today.