workers rights
Trumpet-makers on strike get a brass band boost
August 17, 2011Facing cuts in wages and health care as well as total elimination of their pensions, workers at the highly profitable Conn-Selmer plant went on strike.
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Steelworkers “stand up, fight back” (with video)
August 17, 2011"Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed" - Lincoln's quote opened the United Steelworkers Convention.
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Beep, honk: Verizon picketers get noisy support in upstate NY
August 12, 2011The sounds of support from passing drivers reached us before we got to the picket line in an industrial area of Syracuse on Thursday.
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Ohioans rally for jobs, rights, Boehner locks them out
August 12, 2011Hundreds of workers and their allies at events throughout Ohio rallied this week for jobs and to restore union and voting rights under siege.
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Koch money aids Scott Walker in Wisconsin voter suppression
August 11, 2011It appears that the GOP is not alone in initiating voter suppression: Americans for Prosperity has joined in on the action.
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