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Declare yourself #IdleNoMore
January 7, 2014Idle No More has grown to become much more than just a slogan for a movement on environmental and Indigenous rights.
Read morePlant owner gets 20 years in slammer for workers’ deaths
December 3, 2013OSHA's investigation of the 2010 explosion at a gunpowder plant in Colebrook, N.H., resulted in the issuance of 16 willful and more than 30 serious safety violation citations, along with a $1.2 million penalty
Read moreToday in labor history: Death of unionist Karen Silkwood
November 13, 2013Her life was featured in Silkwood (1983), an Academy Award-nominated film based on an original screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen.
Read moreSenator: Coal mine owners treat workers as “property”
October 4, 2013WASHINGTON (PAI)-The nation's coal mine owners "so victimize" their workers that the workers "come as close to being property as anyone I can imagine," a leading congressional advocate for the miners says.
Read moreShutdown curtails search for missing Idaho woman
October 2, 2013The government shutdown halted a search for a missing Boise hiker as park staff were forced to stop searching and go home.
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