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Cleveland workers protest Staples post office counters

April 25, 2014 By Mike OMalley

The Postal Service has set up U.S. mail service counters in 82 Staples stores throughout the country. The workers at those counters are non-union Staples employees, not union postal workers.

Postal workers march to save the mail in 50 states

April 25, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Chanting "Whose post office? The people's post office!" Postal Workers and their union allies marched in Washington protesting the USPS scheme to run postal services out of Staples stores.

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, unique even among corporate crooks

April 22, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Musk is only the most extreme example of the overcompensated corporate crook running U.S. companies on the AFL-CIO's latest Executive Paywatch list.

Baltimore hospital workers strike for low-paid workers

April 15, 2014 By Jim Baldridge

The union's wage proposal would add 0.32 percent to Hopkins' $754 million payroll costs; in 2013, Hopkins reported a surplus of $145 million.

President Obama orders stronger federal equal pay rules

April 8, 2014 By John Wojcik

The president signed the order in a dramatic White House ceremony as Lilly Ledbetter stood beside him; it marked Equal Pay Day, the day that marks how long a woman must work into 2014 to earn...