workers rights
U.S. ranks with Haiti, Iran and Mexico on workers rights
May 23, 2014"We cannot and we will not stand silent while workers are impoverished through the supply chains of big business and attacked by their own governments."
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Thousands to lobby North Carolina lawmakers Tuesday to repeal rightwing laws
May 23, 2014The Forward Together Moral Movement from across North Carolina will demand that state legislators rescind laws they say are hurting the state's most vulnerable.
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Want a better world? Get on board with the new labor movement
May 21, 2014Deep-going social change in a progressive, left and socialist direction doesn't just "happen." It requires, first of all, real, active, and politically far-seeing social movements on the ground.
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Today in labor history: Hawaiian workers win collective bargaining
May 21, 2014On May 21, 1945, the Hawaii Employee Relations Act was signed, guaranteeing the predominantly Native Hawaiian and Asian immigrant pineapple and sugar workers the right to bargain collectively.
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Unity was their cry: Fast food workers go global
May 20, 2014Tattooed teenagers joined with their sign-carrying elders as part of the global fast food workers' strike. Like an idea whose time has come, there was no holding back this group.
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