Labor
Last minute election appeal by labor
November 4, 2014We're not asking for much, just enough to live our lives. And guys like Scott Walker, Rick Scott, and Mitch McConnell think we don't deserve it.
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Oregon contractor broke labor law, NLRB rules for union painters
November 4, 2014The firm violated federal labor law 18 separate ways, and now must make amends.
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Today in labor history: Harvey Milk elected to office
November 3, 2014On this day in 1977 Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He was the first openly gay person elected to public office in California.
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“We are dying to get paid!”: R.I.P. workers’ dreams
November 3, 2014Hundreds of workers and community members filled Los Angeles City Council Chambers on Oct. 29 and built a wage theft cemetery in front of City Hall.
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Recycling workers say “enough!”
November 3, 2014Within days of each other last week, two groups of Northern California recycling workers declared they'd had enough of what they see as regimes of indignity and discrimination.
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