Jobs
Could you survive on $2 a day?
December 18, 2012Nearly 1.4 million American households live on that much per person.
Read moreMissourians: Real deficit is the jobs deficit
December 13, 2012"We cannot cut our way to job creation," the Rev. Roosevelt Broadnax told labor and community allies.
Read moreUproar, protests, as Michigan house passes right-to-work law
December 7, 2012Amid protests, arrests, a lockout from the state capitol building and a Democratic walkout, the GOP-run Michigan House passed a so-called "right to work" law on Dec. 6.
Read moreLocked out sugar workers reject deal for fourth time
December 3, 2012This is the fourth time members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union have voted down an identical offer.
Read moreTrumka: Mexico on path of “low wage development”
December 3, 2012Mexico, the large U.S. trading partner and southern neighbor, is on a path of "low-wage development," including weakening its labor law and oppressing independent unions.
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