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Today in labor history: Title IX enacted

June 23, 2014 By Combined Sources

Title IX prohibits federally funded educational institutions from discriminating against students or employees based on sex.

Walmart moms challenge Walmart chairman

June 2, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Opening a new front in their long campaign to improve Walmart, the "Walmart moms," members of OURWalmart, are taking on the company's chairman.

Author, poet, activist Maya Angelou dies at age 86

May 28, 2014 By Associated Press

Angelou, a Renaissance woman and cultural pioneer, died Wednesday morning at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, her son, Guy B. Johnson, said in a statement.

#Bring our girls home

May 9, 2014 By Emile Schepers

A wave of revulsion has spread worldwide over the news of the kidnapping of young girls from a school at Chibok, in Borno State in Northwestern Nigeria by the violent Boko Haram sect.

Our Walmart wins some victories for pregnant workers

April 10, 2014 By Mike Hall

It wasn't good luck that brought about workplace changes at Walmart. It was the hard work and the mobilization of workers and community supporters across the nation in Our Walmart.