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We Are One on May Day

April 22, 2011 By Joelle Fishman

International Worker's Day has come home. Out of the depths of the raging class war against public workers, their unions and all working people, has arisen a call by the labor movement from Wisconsin to Connecticut...

Recall fight makes history in Wisconsin

April 19, 2011 By Dan Margolis

Supporters of public-sector unions in Wisconsin filed enough petition signatures to force two Republican senators into recall elections, only four of which have ever been carried out in the state's history.

LaHood “had no idea” air traffic controllers were tired

April 19, 2011 By John Case

The problem started 30 years ago when Reagan fired the air traffic controllers who were protesting the very conditions that led to this debacle.

Union leaders urge: Act now to stop paycheck “protection” laws

April 14, 2011 By Tony Pecinovsky

"This is about eliminating the organizations that represent people. With one vote they are trying to take away our rights."

News flash: Americans aren’t anti-worker

April 12, 2011 By Peter Hart

Polls have found Wisconsin Gov. Walker's union-busting tactics to be widely unpopular despite the major media's presumption that the opposite would be true.