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Judge sides with American Airlines, blocks employees’ vote

June 25, 2012

CWA spent years contacting the customer service reps at American Airlines and was ready to hold a union election just as management took the company into bankruptcy.

Brazil probes dictatorship’s human rights abuses

May 29, 2012 By Pedro Conceicao

Brazil's government will now investigate human rights violations committed by the right-wing military dictatorship that ruled the country from 1964 to 1985.

U.S. intransigence on Cuban Five prisoners a high stakes game

May 22, 2012 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

With appeals all but exhausted, the only hope for relief of unremitting judicial abuse of the Cuban Five lies with President Barack Obama.

Thousands wrongly convicted

May 22, 2012 By Dan Margolis

In the last 23 years alone, more than 2,000 people were falsely convicted, but probably far more people are in prison for crimes they did not commit.

Should union organizers get civil rights protections?

April 10, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Workers who are trying to unionize should be added to the groups of people protected by the nation's civil rights laws, two authors say. Currently those laws apply to women and minorities. Their idea, in the...