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Workers say city services are vital to public safety
April 4, 2013City workers gathered in front of City Hall April 2 with a message for City Council members starting to discuss a new two-year budget.
Read moreToday in labor history: Memphis 1968, we remember
April 4, 2013An assassin's bullet felled the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968. King had come to Memphis to support a strike by the city's sanitation workers.
Read moreToday in labor history: N.J. mill strikers urged to keep fighting
April 3, 2013Striking silk mill workers in Paterson, New Jersey were increasingly at odds with police, who repeatedly crushed their efforts to hold rallies.
Read moreSouthwest Airlines ground crews walk picket lines
March 29, 2013OAKLAND, Calif. - Southwest Airlines ground workers took to the picket lines in 16 cities March 28, to protest contract proposals they say would compromise the airline's tradition of outstanding customer service.
Read moreSouthwest Airlines: not so luvly to employees
March 29, 2013Since the union's contract with Southwest Airlines became amendable, workers say the company has stalled in negotiations and brought an ever-increasing list of demands for cuts.
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