Jobs
Wage theft, labor law-breaking force L.A. port truckers into another strike
June 8, 2016Can you imagine working five weeks in a row and earning nothing?
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Aging in the fields: No alternative but to keep working
June 1, 2016"I had to work out of necessity. My mother couldn't support my younger siblings alone, and I'm the eldest daughter."
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Unions: New Verizon pact gives raises, halts outsourcing, adds jobs
June 1, 2016Some 40,000 Verizon workers from Maine down through Virginia marched back to work today after a company-forced 45-day strike earned them victories.
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America must renew its infrastructure or face decline
May 20, 2016Politics as usual won't change things. It will take a wave election, a sweeping rebuke to the obstructionist Republican Congress, for anything to happen.
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Rally for job security at Yale
May 18, 2016Up to 2,000 union members and community allies filled Cedar Street May 5 to support 986 union members whose jobs are threatened.
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