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Household workers demand rights, bang pots and pans, with video
March 8, 2013Hundreds banged pots and pans here yesterday to launch a campaign for a Household Workers Bill of Rights.
Read moreImpending disaster uncovered at Louisiana refinery
March 8, 2013An EPA inspection uncovered numerous air quality and job safety and health violations that ExxonMobil did not report at the nation's second largest oil refinery.
Read moreLabor says tax millionaires to protect Social Security
March 8, 2013"Ninety-four percent of the country pays Social Security taxes on all their income. Six percent do not. This has got to change."
Read moreMissouri coalition standing up for immigrant rights
March 8, 2013"We have to do things that welcome immigrants to our state," Vanessa Crawford, executive director of MIRA, told members and activists from all over Missouri.
Read moreLas Vegas cab company forces a strike
March 7, 2013The second largest cab company in Las Vegas has forced its drivers - the first taxi drivers to unionize, more than a decade ago - to strike.
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