Labor
People before Profits: Sound bites about jobs
October 14, 2010The Republicans are fond of saying that small business creates 70 percent of all jobs. They don't tell you that small business is also responsible for 70 percent of all layoffs. That's the nature of small...
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Millions protest pension “reform” in France
October 13, 2010More than 3.5 million took to the streets throughout France on Tuesday protesting moves to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62.
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Lou Dobbs joins immigration hypocrite list
October 13, 2010The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute recently found that Lou Dobbs, who fulminated nightly on CNN against "the illegal aliens" taking over the country, has relied for years on undocumented labor for the upkeep of...
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Labor takes on racism in GOP “Pledge”
October 12, 2010The Republican Party's platform for the mid-term elections, its "Pledge to America," has a sharply racist edge.
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Anti-union groups use election to push far-right agenda
October 12, 2010The same far-right anti-union groups that blocked the Employee Free Choice Act and opposed hiking the minimum wage are pouring more than $400 million into the 2010 mid-term elections.
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