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Minnesota private prison debate raises issues of race, justice
March 30, 2016Issues of race, poverty, and justice bubbled to the surface in an emotional hearing in late March.
Read moreLabor backs two major actions aimed at restoring American democracy
March 14, 2016The AFL-CIO's executive council has endorsed two coming April actions aimed at wresting control over the nation's elections from corporations and billionaires.
Read moreImmokalee Farmworkers: Boycott Wendy’s for human rights abuses
March 14, 2016The coalition wrote Wendy's a decade ago, saying the chain should pay decent wages and stop human rights abuses in the fields, following guidelines of the coalition's Fair Food Program.
Read moreStudents to Gov. Rauner: “Do your damn job”
February 9, 2016CSU students, faculty, alumns, and community gathered around the Thompson Center where many state offices are located to protest the state's budget impasse.
Read moreTeamsters and others fight pension battle over multi-employer fund
February 3, 2016Teamsters are one of the unions under the knife now, but 200 multi-employer pension funds covering 1.5 million American workers could be in jeopardy for a number of reasons.
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