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Trumka, panel debate working-class anger and elections
September 28, 2010"There is a class war going on in this country," AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka said during a September 24 panel discussion at the Cooper Union, "and my class is losing. We've got to turn that around."
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Protests force suspension of Hyatt’s first shareholders meeting
June 9, 2010Just six months after becoming a publicly traded company protests forced Hyatt Hotels to suspend its first shareholders meeting here.
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A rising tide of anger
April 8, 2010Unemployment, hunger, 25 coalminers dead, yes, there is a rising tide of anger in the country.
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Labor & community activists converge @Organizing 2.0
December 7, 2009NEW YORK -- Several hundred labor organizers, community organizers and progressive technologists gathered here Dec. 6 for the Organizing 2.0 Conference.
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WOMENS HISTORY MONTH: I helped organize the CIO
March 14, 2003I was not quite 19 but I answered the call to help organize the laundry workers of New York City. In two months, our staff of 30, half of us Communists, organized 20,000 workers.
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