workers rights
“America Needs A Raise” bus rolls into Maine
March 25, 2014A Center for American Progress report found that raising the minimum wage will not only benefit workers and the local economy, but also will reduce taxpayer costs.
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Debt, climate change, immigration top student agenda
March 25, 2014College and graduate students from across the nation met at the 45th annual "Grassroots Legislative Conference," hosted by the United States Student Association, which has strong ties with the labor movement.
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Today in women’s history: Coalition of Labor Union Women founded
March 24, 2014On March 24, 1974, the Coalition of Labor Union Women was founded by some 3,000 women trade unionists from 58 labor organizations at a meeting in Chicago.
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Right wingers besiege Dallas
March 18, 2014Imagine living in a city striving to win the 2016 Republican Convention, already accepted a convention for the worst anti-worker political organizers in America, and trying to privatize their entire school district.
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We are not going back!
March 11, 2014From slavery to today's struggles against structural racism and for democracy for all, the African-American people continue to play a strategic role.
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