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Debate showed “powerful contrasts” between Obama and Romney
October 17, 2012President Barack Obama had the last word in yesterday's presidential debate, and it was the one his supporters longed to hear, and his opponent longs to forget: 47 percent.
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Pakistan rallies around Malala Yousafzai
October 16, 2012The 15-year-old Pakistani woman gravely wounded in a Taliban attack, has come to symbolize a broadening struggle in that country, against the extremist views the Taliban seeks to enforce there.
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Today in labor history: “Boom boom room” costs Wall Street in sex bias payout
October 9, 2012Branch managers had been asking female employees to remove their tops in exchange for money. One office featured a "boom boom room" where women were told to "entertain" clients.
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Today in labor history: Textile workers ambushed
September 14, 2012The AFL-CIO expanded Wiggins' grave marker in 1979, to include the phrase, "She died carrying the torch of social justice."
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Charlotte chant: “We are union, the mighty, mighty union!”
September 4, 2012Delegates here for the Democratic National Convention applauded as union men and women marched through Charlotte in the annual Labor Day parade chanting, "We are the union, the mighty, mighty union."
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