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Rights groups sue feds over immigrant families
August 25, 2014"What we are seeing in Artesia is nothing less than a sham process that values expediency over justice".
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Teamsters battle senator’s scheme to lengthen truckers’ hours behind the wheel
August 14, 2014"We cannot afford to add to driver fatigue by rolling back hours-of-service regulations, which were carefully crafted over the course of more than two decades."
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Supreme Court makes it tougher for women to exercise choice
July 1, 2014The Massachusetts policy aimed to protect women as they accessed reproductive health care against a backdrop of harassment and even physical attacks from anti-choice protesters.
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Poultry inspectors say new policy could prove lethal for consumers
June 10, 2014The proposal would allow plants to increase their line speeds up to 175 chicken carcasses per minute.
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Labor comes out on top in San Jose primaries
June 6, 2014In San Jose, working people, and city workers in particular, have faced an antagonistic city government for the past eight years.
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