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Hoffa holds tea party responsible for “tremendous war on workers”
September 14, 2012The tea party has taken over the Republican Party and produced "craziness" there and is responsible for the "tremendous war on workers" now being waged nationwide, Teamsters President James Hoffa says.
Read moreToday in labor history: Textile workers ambushed
September 14, 2012The AFL-CIO expanded Wiggins' grave marker in 1979, to include the phrase, "She died carrying the torch of social justice."
Read moreIn Chicago, a movement is born to reclaim public education
September 13, 2012Parents, students and community groups, whose pent up outrage at school privatization dictated by Mayor Rahm Emanuel has been unleashed by the strike, joined teachers on the picket lines.
Read moreChicago teachers strike for good schools
September 11, 2012Declaring "enough is enough," 28,000 Chicago public school teachers, paraprofessionals, clinicians, social workers and counselors went on strike September 10.
Read moreMO AFL-CIO Convention: Focus on elections and ballot initiatives
September 11, 2012"There couldn't be a clearer choice. The up-coming November elections are about two very different and distinct paths for our country."
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