Wages
Despite vicious opposition, Chattanooga workers are unionizing
December 7, 2015In the face of corporation opposition, skilled workers at the Volkswagen plant voted for UAW to become their collective bargaining representative, a step toward unionization of the whole plant.
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Portugal: Socialist government takes power with Left support
November 24, 2015Antonio Luis Santos da Costa of the Socialist Party, forms a government with the support of the Communist, Ecologist (Green) and Left Bloc deputies in the national parliament.
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High court tackles four important cases involving workers, unions
November 20, 2015The U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to drastically rewrite not just labor law, but working conditions in the U.S.
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Elizabeth Warren rolls out women’s economic agenda
November 19, 2015"Achieving pay equality for women isn't enough - we have to make sure that all workers, men and women, are earning enough to live on."
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Workers unite across the nation in the Fight for 15
November 13, 2015"Before I started with Fight for 15, the management would scream and degrade us in front of people; now they actually treat us with respect."
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