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Labor Secretary Perez vows to grow middle class, “so help me God”
September 13, 2013LOS ANGELES (PAI)-New Labor Secretary Tom Perez virtually threw away his script at the AFL-CIO Convention here, with a stem-winder speech, pledging worker protections, promising labor and the administration would do it together and with several...
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AFL-CIO blasts big business prison profiteers
September 10, 2013The nation's prison population exploded from 500,000 to 2.2 million between 1980 and 2011, in the decades since the for-profit business of incarceration was born.
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Labor takes a look behind kitchen door
September 9, 2013The second-largest private sector industry in America has a big problem: its workers are paid unlivable wages, and typically cannot eat the very food they are putting on customers' tables.
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March on Washington’s powerful lessons for the environmental movement
September 4, 2013Like the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s, the environmental movement has both moral and practical aspects. It needs a strategy that unites both inside and outside struggles and goals.
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Taking the long view on fight for freedom
September 4, 2013As one of 250,000 who attended the 1963 "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom," I had to come to Washington, Aug. 24, to be a part of the 50th anniversary march.
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