Public Workers
Instead of attacking workers, how about some jobs?
April 27, 2011"Right to Work" backers say it's about putting people back to work, but if we look at the latest state to enact such a proposal, it just isn't true.
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Florida labor fights “paycheck protection”
April 26, 2011Florida's labor movement is fighting against a bill, supported by the state's Chamber of Commerce and legislature, that would strip public sector unions of their right to engage in political activity.
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Scenes from an uprising: Chicago We Are One (Video)
April 13, 201110,000 trade unionists and their supporters from around Chicago and Illinois poured into Daley Plaza downtown.
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African Americans, women and youth hit hard
April 12, 2011The Republican assault on the public sector threatens to accelerate the rate at which public employees are being laid off, with especially dire consequences for African Americans and women.
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In Texas, thousands rally to “Save our State”
April 7, 2011Days after 1,000 union-inspired protests rattled America, tardy Texans held their statewide coalition march and rally.
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