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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.

Postal workers warn public about outsourcing deal with Staples

February 11, 2014 By Ben Markeson

"Outsourcing an essential public service to a for-profit corporation staffed with clerks making less than a livable wage and no accountability to the American public is completely irrational."

Biden blasts “right-to-work”

February 6, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Business and right wing backers of so-called "right to work" laws really want "the right for them to eliminate your right to have a say in your work."

Unions: Senate postal overhaul would axe 100,000 workers

February 3, 2014 By PAI

The latest Postal Service overhaul bill, which stalled after the relevant Senate committee started work on it on Jan. 29, would axe 100,000 jobs.

First Energy: Locks out workers, blacks out customers

January 14, 2014 By John Wojcik

It was just after sunrise only three days before Thanksgiving, that security guards clamped locks on the gates at FirstEnergy in central Pennsylvania, barring 150 workers from their jobs.