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Federal agency to probe Delta flight attendants vote

June 8, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

The National Mediation Board acted in response to evidence brought by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA

Firefighters, nurses, farmers turn up heat in Walkerville

June 7, 2011 By John Wojcik

Former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold led 1,000 firefighters, nurses, farmers and a motorcade of taxi cabs and an antique fire engine, in a demonstration that encircled Capitol Square.

Supreme Court lets anti-immigrant law stand

June 7, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

By a 5-3 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Arizona's first anti-immigrant law is legal.

“Walkerville” tent city grows in Wisconsin

June 6, 2011 By John Wojcik

Like the workers who built "Hooverville" tent cities in the Depression of the 1920s and '30s, protestors are dramatizing their opposition to Republicans' economic policies.

GOP panel cuts 43 education programs

June 6, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

The GOP-run House Education and the Workforce Committee voted 23-16 on party lines May 25 to eliminate 43 elementary and secondary education programs.