legislation
Postal unions sign cooperation pact, prepare for joint April 24 actions
March 28, 2014The target will be schemes to cut postal services, end Saturday pickup and delivery, and fire or let go by attrition hundreds of thousands of workers.
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Trumka says he’ll back Obama on a new pro-worker trade policy
March 25, 2014The death of fast-track, Obama told the Center for American Progress, gives him the opportunity to construct a new trade policy to benefit workers in the U.S. and worldwide, that guarantees labor rights, that protects "buy...
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Debt, climate change, immigration top student agenda
March 25, 2014College and graduate students from across the nation met at the 45th annual "Grassroots Legislative Conference," hosted by the United States Student Association, which has strong ties with the labor movement.
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Right wingers besiege Dallas
March 18, 2014Imagine living in a city striving to win the 2016 Republican Convention, already accepted a convention for the worst anti-worker political organizers in America, and trying to privatize their entire school district.
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Today in black history: Civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson dies, becomes catalyst for Selma march
February 26, 2014Twenty-six year old civil rights protester Jimmie Lee Jackson died this day, Feb. 26, 1965, from gunshot wounds inflicted by Alabama State Trooper after marching in a peaceful protest.
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