workers rights
Workers mobilize to stop GOP’s job safety cuts
April 27, 2011Workers are rallying and marching at job sites and government offices not just to remember those killed on the job, but to oppose GOP attempts to dismantle job safety laws.
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Instead of attacking workers, how about some jobs?
April 27, 2011"Right to Work" backers say it's about putting people back to work, but if we look at the latest state to enact such a proposal, it just isn't true.
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Does labor law protect critical ‘tweets’?
April 26, 2011A 30-month struggle by The News-paper Guild of New York with one of the world's big wire services, Thomson-Reuters over "tweets" critical of working conditions.
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Overturning child labor laws: top priority for GOP
April 25, 2011Republican operatives recently opened up a new front: rolling back child labor laws.
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May Day in Chicago: Labor to commemorate Haymarket martyrs
April 22, 2011It's just one word in labor history with a lot of associations: Haymarket.
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