Labor
Courts remain key to advancing workers’ rights
January 3, 2013If you think courts aren't important to workers, then unions in Wisconsin, Alaska and Texas have a blunt message for you: Wrong.
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Unions to aim for labor law, immigration reform
January 3, 2013Reforming labor law to help balance the scales between workers and bosses in organizing and bargaining, will always be labor's number one legislative priority - until it passes.
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Today in labor history: Farm workers on trial
December 18, 2012On this day in 1830, the trial of nearly 350 agricultural workers began in England.
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Today in labor history: FDR lifts internment of Japanese Americans
December 17, 2012President Roosevelt lifted the "military-necessary exclusion" of Japanese Americans from the West Coast, marking the beginning of the end of a shameful chapter of U.S. history.
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AFL-CIO calls for universal voter registration
December 14, 2012The labor movement has added its voice to the demands for voting reform that are sweeping the nation.
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