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Teamsters highlight contradictions in Mexican trucks case
March 28, 2012The Teamsters have apparently caught the Obama Transportation Department in several contradictions.
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Labor hits delay on new safety rule
March 28, 2012The Obama administration's Office of Management and Budget is sitting on - apparently indefinitely - a proposed job safety rule to cut worker exposure to silica dust.
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Pennsylvania unions blast new voter ID law
March 27, 2012HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania has become the latest large state to enact a so-called "voter ID" law, and it would deprive 700,000 people of the right to vote, thus drawing a blast from the state AFL-CIO....
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Labor pushes for highway-mass transit bill, GOP blocks
March 23, 2012The bill would approve highway and mass transit construction money for the next two years, creating tens of thousands of jobs. And civil engineers say there are now thousands of structurally deficient or functionally obsolete bridges.
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Senate’s phony “JOBS Act” not about jobs, deregulates Wall Street
March 23, 2012AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka came out with a blistering statement on the Senate's passage of the so-called "JOBS Act."
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