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Cleveland workers protest Staples post office counters
April 25, 2014The Postal Service has set up U.S. mail service counters in 82 Staples stores throughout the country. The workers at those counters are non-union Staples employees, not union postal workers.
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Postal workers march to save the mail in 50 states
April 25, 2014Chanting "Whose post office? The people's post office!" Postal Workers and their union allies marched in Washington protesting the USPS scheme to run postal services out of Staples stores.
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Today in eco-history: Dirty coal killed 45 Virginians
April 24, 2014It became the worst disaster in the country in 1938 and one of the worst coal mining disasters in Virginia history.
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TPP trade talks draw foes on both sides of Pacific
April 24, 2014Twitter carried pictures of protesting Asian workers and news reports said the Obama-Abe bargaining in Japan would probably not result in approval of the trade pact.
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Players and Northwestern to battle at NLRB after Apr. 25 vote
April 21, 2014College football players who want to unionize and their foe, Northwestern University, filed their written arguments with the NLRB on Apr. 16.
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