Labor
Today in labor history: Death of unionist Karen Silkwood
November 13, 2013Her life was featured in Silkwood (1983), an Academy Award-nominated film based on an original screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen.
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Black Friday Walmart strike wave already underway
November 13, 2013"I want people to be able to live better, you know, like the commercial says; nobody lives better now except for the Waltons."
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Detroit’s Fox 2, unfair to working families
November 13, 2013An early Christmas party at a local furniture store became the rally site for workers of Fox 2 television.
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McConnell tries to make ENDA contingent on right to work for less
November 7, 2013Mitch McConnell and his BFF, Rand Paul, are trying to weaken or kill ENDA by attaching to it a provision that would have created a national "right to work" for less law.
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If federal jobless benefits end, nation loses 131,000 jobs
November 7, 2013If federally funded extended unemployment insurance benefits expire as scheduled at the end of 2013, the economy will lose 310,000 jobs in 2014.
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