Labor
Big business floods Congress with demands to de-regulate
February 11, 2011Corporations officially unveiled loads of pet projects, wish-lists, and regulations they want axed during a hearing held by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The labor movement says it's corporate arm-twisting of lawmakers on the...
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Jobs not a concern at annual conservative gathering
February 10, 2011Thousands of conservatives are meeting for the Conservative Political Action Committee's annual convention, but they're not talking about jobs.
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GOP attacks public workers collective bargaining rights
February 9, 2011Republicans legislators and the Republican governor in Ohio are intensifying their campaign to turn public workers into scapegoats for the economic problems in their state.
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Anti-segregation march planned for Raleigh
February 8, 2011Quality education is seen by the organizers as linked to other issues, with the groups calling for "a broad, 14-point people's agenda."
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Union happy with new Obama crackdown on mine owners
February 8, 2011Mine workers welcome Obama's plan to make it easier in cracking down on coal companies that are constant safety violators. However specific rules need to be enforced in order to further erode the systemic problem, unions...
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