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Target stores the target of two-day strike
June 12, 2013Workers who clean Target and other retail stores in the Twin Cities held a two-day strike.
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Detroit remembers 50 years after King’s “I Have a Dream” speech
June 11, 2013Why are tens of thousands again prepared to march in Detroit? "We need a better Detroit, better Michigan, better jobs, and better justice, to turn the dream of 1963 into the reality of 2013."
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Teachers march against “teach to the test”
June 10, 2013Thousands of New York unionized teachers and their supporters descended on the state capital in Albany on June 8.
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May jobless rate at 7.6 percent
June 10, 2013But the alleged business job creation rate is not enough to make a positive dent in the number of jobless, which was 11.8 million in May.
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House GOP defeated again on prevailing wages
June 6, 2013By a 231-192 tally, yet another House Republican move to trash workers' rights and incomes went down the drain on June 4.
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