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Labor history: 2011 marks unhappy anniversary on job safety
September 7, 2011The year 2011 should serve as a reminder of how far the U.S. has come on job safety issues - and how far it has yet to go.
Read moreThe Keystone Pipeline: can labor and environmentalists work together?
August 31, 2011Building Trades unions are backing - and transit unions opposing - the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline, from the tar sands of the Canadian province of Alberta to the oil refineries of the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Read moreChile resists – students and labor join forces
August 30, 2011Anational strike called by the Workers' United Center of Chile (CUT), massed 400, 000 people in the capital city of Santiago and 200,000 elsewhere.
Read moreMillions make change
August 30, 2011The initiatives and actions of the American people were an essential ingredient in the progressive-democratic thrust in the 1930s and 1960s. The same is true today.
Read moreOklahoma City Laborfest a stunner!
August 29, 2011Residents of the working class neighborhood came out on their porches to watch the block-long procession. JD Thompson led the marchers in a lusty "Solidarity Forever." The third and final day of the Oklahoma Laborfest was...
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