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USPS hiring freeze hurts veterans, postal workers say

November 20, 2012 By Don McIntosh

While the USPS was closed on Veterans Day, Portland, Ore. postal employees used their day off to say that if USPS really wants to honor veterans, it should hire them.

If unemployment insurance extensions expire, economy will lose 400,000 jobs in 2013

November 14, 2012 By Economic Policy Institute

If the federally funded extended unemployment insurance benefits expire at the end of 2012, the economy will lose 400,000 jobs in 2013.

Union leaders to Obama: raise taxes on the rich, aid middle class

November 14, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Union leaders meeting with Barack Obama on Nov. 13 urged him to stick to his campaign pledges to raise taxes on the rich and to aid the middle class.

Sneak attack on financial regulations underway on Capitol Hill

November 8, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

A sneak attack against financial re-regulation - undoing the reforms imposed on Wall Street and similar finaglers after the 2008 crash - is underway on Capitol Hill.

Labor pushing hard in final days before election

November 6, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Organized labor's final election push turned to get-out-the-vote and voter protection.