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Students declare national boycott of Wendy’s
March 24, 2015The student-led boycott will be launched at Ohio State University and will snowball over the coming months as dozens more universities adopt it.
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Activists use impetus of Climate March to invoke justice
March 18, 2015Labor, climate, and community activists met to turn the passion of the People's Climate March into a movement.
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Tens of thousands mark Selma’s “Bloody Sunday” voting rights march
March 9, 2015America's racial history "still casts its long shadow upon us," Obama said Saturday as he stood in solidarity and remembrance with civil rights activists.
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Chicago “Mayor 1%” Rahm Emanuel forced into runoff
February 26, 2015Money can buy Rahm Emanuel a lot of things but it couldn't buy him love, at least not from the voters here in the Feb. 24 primary race for mayor.
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Walmart’s raise for workers “proof collective action works”
February 20, 2015Walmart announced today it was giving its lowest-wage workers a raise to at least $9 an hour by April and $10 an hour by 2016.
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Workers in Ohio and Indiana join USW strike against oil industry
February 10, 2015"Management cannot continue to resist allowing workers a stronger voice on issues that could very well make the difference between life and death for too many of them."
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Oil workers begin largest strike since 1980
February 2, 2015The USW called for its refinery workers to stage their walkout after negotiations with Shell Oil Co. broke down less than two weeks after they began.
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McDonald’s workers sue fast food giant over racial and sexual discrimination
January 23, 2015McDonald's workers who were fired last year after being told, "There are too many black people [working] in the store."
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