Labor
Disneyland worker sent home for hijab
August 19, 2010A Muslim employee in Disneyland's Grand Californian Hotel has been sent home from work with no pay for refusing to take off her hijab while working as a hostess in a hotel restaurant.
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College grad adds union organizing to job as a laundry hauler
August 18, 2010Unorganized California hotel workers stage a one-day strike.
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Dinner honors workers’ ‘incredible courage’
August 18, 2010Union and community supporters showed solidarity with Castlewood Country Club workers who have been locked out of their jobs at the posh Pleasanton club for nearly six months.
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Blue-Green Alliance demands congressional action on clean energy jobs
August 16, 2010A coalition of unions and environmental groups launched a campaign this week to overcome Republican roadblocks to clean energy jobs and climate legislation.
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Immigration: How not to make legislative concessions
August 13, 2010The Senate yesterday to throw $600 more into the useless and hopeless project of "sealing" the U.S.-Mexican border. What a waste!
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