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What does AFL-CIO Convention mean to the class struggle today? Let’s discuss
October 16, 2013The AFL-CIO, the country's largest labor federation, held a groundbreaking convention in Los Angeles. Join us for a teleconference dialogue on what happened.
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Fast food giants cost America $7 billion in McTaxes
October 16, 2013Two recently published reports shed damning light on the high cost of low wages in the fast food industry.
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Dallas joins national day of protest over shutdown
October 16, 2013About 50 activists, many of them retirees, gathered outside the office of Senator Ted Cruz in Dallas on October 15.
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“Let us work,” say government workers
October 14, 2013It's hurting our communities, said demonstrators in downtown Detroit protesting the tea party led government shutdown.
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Today in labor history: Black inventor Henry Blair patents cotton planter
October 14, 2013In 1857 patent rights were denied to slaves and were restored after the Civil War. Blair died in 1860, the year the war began.
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