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Fight for $15: CPUSA Convention highlights fight for a living wage
June 17, 2014At the Peoples World panel on June 13 called "Working for a Living: New Challenges," workers who have been part of the Fight for 15 campaign to raise fast food wages made their voices heard.
Read moreToday in labor history: Mass. first state to pass minimum wage
June 4, 2014"The industry employing her is in receipt of the working energy of a human being at less than its cost, and to that extent is parasitic."
Read moreIn LA and Illinois, unions fight legal battles vs. pension cuts
June 3, 2014The LA pension case affects 20,000 present municipal workers and the Illinois case affects 621,000 workers and retirees.
Read moreFaith in service to worker justice
May 30, 2014"Not just promises of doing good, but a a strategic, thoughtful, active, day-in-day-out, in-the-trenches response."
Read moreSens. Warren and Sanders, Rev. Barber inspire at New Populism Conference
May 27, 2014The "new populism" spoken of at the conference was described, defined and delivered with hope and realism.
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