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Trumka says a worldwide New Deal is needed
June 14, 2013Europe's present experience, past world history, and U.S. federal budget cutting show that "austerity doesn't work" as a way to pull the U.S. and the world out of the Great Recession.
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Teamsters voting on UPS pacts
June 14, 2013Teamsters are voting on new contracts with UPS. They cover 250,000 workers, making them the largest private-sector bargaining agreements in the U.S.
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Anti-union greed the killer in Philly building collapse
June 12, 2013Six people who died here June 5 have been described as being "of different backgrounds and classes."
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U.S. poor are in free fall
June 12, 2013The level of income inequality stretches much higher in the United States than in the other developed countries. Now it's gone off the chart.
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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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