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Transit workers’ rally highlights safety, budget woes
November 27, 2009CLEVELAND - A rally protesting the Regional Transit Authority's refusal to address worker and rider safety in contract talks dramatized the challenge facing public transit systems in today's economic crisis.
Read moreThanksgiving in troubled times
November 25, 2009Food, family, traffic jams, thankfulness - all are part of Thanksgiving, but, especially this year, there is more.
Read moreU.S. & German unions unite to battle T-Mobile
November 24, 2009The Communications Workers of America and its German counterpart have teamed up to battle T-Mobile's union-busting efforts in the U.S.
Read moreU.S. students win ‘new day’ for Honduran workers
November 19, 2009In a big victory for a U.S. student campaign, Russell Athletics, the largest supplier of team uniforms and apparel, agreed to reopen a Honduran factory that it shut down after its workers formed a union.
Read moreFeeling heat, U.S.-China firms say they’ll build turbines here
November 19, 2009Under pressure from the nation’s biggest manufacturing union, a U.S.-China energy partnership said it would build a factory here, creating 1,000 jobs.
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