workers rights
Big business and GOP block Florida sick-time ballot measure
September 25, 2012Progressive forces have had the prospect of paid sick time, an advance for low-wage workers, snatched from them, at least temporarily, by big business forces and their allies .
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Parents and students back Chicago teachers
September 18, 2012Hundreds of parents and students demonstrated their solidarity with striking Chicago teachers in rallies across the city Sept.18.
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Mitt, you take personal responsibility!
September 18, 2012Few could have missed what are likely the most contemptible words ever uttered by a candidate for the presidency of the United States - words that show just how unqualified he is to aspire to that...
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On the 202nd anniversary of Mexican independence
September 18, 2012On Sept.16, Mexico celebrated its two hundred and second independence day. Is independence slipping through the Mexican people's fingers?
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Today in Labor History: 1934 textile workers strike begins
September 18, 2012The textile workers' strike of 1934 was the largest strike in U.S. labor history at the time, involving as many as 500,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the U.S.Southern states.
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