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RWDSU launches campaign for NYC car wash workers after devastating report
March 12, 2012RWDSU is launching a campaign to bring workers' rights - including the right to organize - to some 5,000 car wash workers in New York City.
Read moreNation’s labor leaders meet to mobilize for 2012 elections
March 12, 2012Leaders of almost every labor union in the country are arriving here today for a special meeting of the AFL-CIO Executive Council.
Read moreOccupy’s 89%? Where anarchism shuns unionists, it allies with the ultra-right
March 7, 2012Anarchist collectives in the Occupy movement in Oakland and the Pacific Northwest have put forward a new slogan, "We are the 89%." This threatens to destroy any alliance between the Occupy movement and organized labor.
Read moreIndia’s general strike shows unprecedented working-class unity and anger
March 6, 2012In the largest general strike since India's independence, millions of workers went on strike Feb. 28 for stronger labor laws and to protest the rising cost of living.
Read moreOhio governor backs off his turndown of federal storm help
March 6, 2012Ohio's right wing Republican governor John Kasich worked Monday to pull his foot out of his own mouth.
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