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Immigrant communities brace for Trump
November 23, 2016“People here have to remember the power they’ve built on a local level and use it,” one immigrants’ rights activist says, “even in the face of a national defeat.”
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Analyst: Adults, not teens, are lopsided majority of minimum wage workers
August 12, 2016Researcher Monica Garcia-Perez presented her findings to an AFL-CIO-co-sponsored conference on race, income and inequality.
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Chicago May Day marchers show unity against Trump
May 3, 2016Thousands of people marched for a more just society and to confront the face of bigotry and classism: the Republican front runner for president, Donald Trump.
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California janitors ready to strike
April 29, 2016Over 20,000 janitors statewide call for a strike against unfair labor practices by janitorial companies who contract with some of the most high-priced real estate owners.
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Construction workers killed on the job, manager goes to jail
January 19, 2016On Christmas Eve 2009, when the scaffolding they were working on broke in half, four workers were not wearing safety lines and fell thirteen floors.
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