Labor
Video: Restaurant workers sing for “Money”
March 12, 2013Restaurant workers are sending a message to Albany lawmakers to raise the minimum wage to at least $9.00/hour when they do the budget this month.
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Chicago unions go to bat for immigration reform
March 8, 2013Chicago's labor movement turned out in force yesterday to declare support for immediate reform of immigration law.
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Unions go public with intent to overhaul their own structure
March 8, 2013The AFL-CIO will probe new ways of organizing itself and the broader labor movement and its allies to meet what it says are the changing times.
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Labor says tax millionaires to protect Social Security
March 8, 2013"Ninety-four percent of the country pays Social Security taxes on all their income. Six percent do not. This has got to change."
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Las Vegas cab company forces a strike
March 7, 2013The second largest cab company in Las Vegas has forced its drivers - the first taxi drivers to unionize, more than a decade ago - to strike.
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