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Big Las Vegas Culinary Workers Local issues travel alert about Trump hotel there
August 31, 2016Culinary Workers Local 226, stonewalled by management at Trump's Las Vegas hotel, has a new website with a travel alert, warning the travel industry about the struggle there.
Read moreThe fight for 15: Hold on, Baltimore’s coming!
August 31, 2016Maryland may not see $15 for quite some time. But Baltimore Fight for $15 activists aren't waiting.
Read moreUnions battle employers that use arbitration to curb worker rights
August 25, 2016The direct attack on worker rights engineered by Gov. Scott Walker is only one front of the war on workers.
Read moreEconomist: Guaranteed living-wage jobs best way to address inequality
August 19, 2016Noted African-American economics professor Darrick Hamilton is proposing federally-guaranteed jobs, at living wages, for everyone.
Read moreUnemployment would be 6.2 percent if it included discouraged jobseekers
August 8, 2016Governments never hired back all the workers they fired in the Great Recession, and there's been a resulting drag on the current recovery.
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